Chatroulette Outline.docx

Caitlin Bentley Chatroulette Morgan Le Page Karoline Knapp Group Outline Open with impact: Ever want to chat with a creepy old man in Moscow? Focus: Chatroulette gives the thrilling opportunity for people to chat across the world. Body Chatroulette is a website that pairs random strangers for webcam based conversations. Mainpoint: Overview History- Created by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17 year old boy from Moscow (buzzfeed.com). Wrote the first version of Chatroulette in 2 days and 2 nights (buzzfeed.com). Released the end of November 2009 (buzzfeed.com). Parents gave him $10,000 to launch this idea, he paid it back in full within the first 3 weeks (buzzfeed.com). Mainpoint: Personal Experience Mainpoint: Impacting Lives Culture Chatroulette gives a person the opportunity to chat with a naked, fat man, a group of frat boys stuck in their dorms, or a French man across the world. Ternovsky said, ?30 million unique visitors come to the Web site and one million new people visit each day. It continues to multiply and I just couldn?t stop it from growing.? (New York Times) There are about 35,000 on Chatroulette at any given time (cnn.com) Conclusion ?Chatroulette is quickly becoming the go to site if you want to chat with the most socially deprived people you will ever interact with.? (buzzfeed.com) Works Cited One on one: andrey ternovskiy, creator of chatroulette. (2010, March 12). Retrieved from http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/one-on-one-andrey-ternovskiy-creator-of-chatroulette/ The 24 best chat roulette screenshots. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-24-best-chat-roulette-screenshots-nsfw