With the internet becoming more and more “streaming friendly” thanks to high-speed connections being laid in most cities and webcams/microphones becoming a standard feature in laptops, consumers have seen a revolution over the past few years in how they connect with people around the world. While in the past, chatting directly with someone in China while you’re sitting in your Miami home may have cost you $0.99 a minute, but now with VOIP services such as Skype it can be done for free. User videos can be uploaded from cell phones, and live broadcasts can be done from anywhere with the click of a button.

To put an extra spin on all of this, though, comes Chatroulette: a website designed by a 17-year-old Russian student to randomly rotate users who are connected over their webcams with each other. While this new spin on connectivity may not bring anything necessarily “new” to the system, as it neither invented the webcam nor internet streaming technology, the concept of randomly chatting with a stranger around the world (much like speed dating, in a sense) has attracted quite the ruckus from users as well as media coverage as of late.

The primary reason for this boom in interest in Chatroulette lies in the fact that videos being streamed over the internet are not necessarily censored and may, at any given rotation, depict individuals involved in some sort of lewd sexual act. With the very nature of Chatroulette leaving videos up to chance, there is no way to choose to NOT view these should someone be interested in showing them, and many wonder if this lack of control (as well as user interest in it) is the future of what internet video streaming will be. With it, of course, also comes interest in how to regulate and censor such information as well as increased consumer concern over that issue – an endless cycle that may end up in even further internet regulations should things prove less-than-desirable for lawmakers in the new internet age.

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