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I do mean the human race. We is everyone who would use it for normal purposes both social and news/information spreading, but abandoned it to what it is now. It didn't used to be like this at the start, I'm told from people back in the day who used things like Chatroullette and Omegle that i used to just be conversations, people reaching out trade news of the regions, or just bored people who wanted to meet ohters, but we as a global community let it fall to the wayside. People who don't use a thing for good things, who just say "it's full of garbage, I'm not going there!" and leave it to be exactly that. And yes, it is tough to filter them out, but we are supposed to be a world that doesn't shy away from things because they are hard. And at the end of the day, that next button makes them vanish. No, I don't mean anyone in particular on this site, I mean the whole internet population. We as a whole. All the normal people who don't get on it and have normal conversations. I'm still scrolling through things I can't mention here becuase I'm not ready to give up on meeting even just ONE person out there who I can have a conversation with (That Turkish dude's body language seemed normal, so while I admit he could have been saying extremely kinky things in Turkish, I would be sorta surprised). B ut I picked mysefl back up and slogged through some crazy again, and almost had a conversation. Some man in Micronesia and I were doing really good (or horribly gone wrong) pantomimes. It was weirdly fun. He was trying to explain how to prepare a fish I believe, as he kept turning his camera to the food he was working on while he was talking, and I was showing him pictures of my area. Language barrier again, but ti was still...cool. I think what makes me really sad is that we COULD reclaim it, if the army of people across the world with webcams got on, just nexted the gross and ignored them, without reinforcement and with just ordinary chatter boring them it could be reclaimed. And I think with so many governments going crazy, it's probably important that it we do take it back and start talking to people beyond our normal daily run ins. *shrugs* but I"m just one turtle, I'm not really the revolutionary type no matter how hard I Try to be.

I had not heard of random video chat but it makes sense now that I think of it. But, you wrote, "And we've let it languish into some sort of perverts only waste. We could change the world here, and we just...don't." I don't mean to put too fine a point on things but I don't see "us" (whomever that is, not me) having allowed it to languish. I think the basic problem is that there are a lot of people out there who get their jollies doing things like you described as well as promulgate fake news, run phishing and other scams, and promote hateful views, among many other things. It's tough to filter those people out. We do it here on TGG pretty well, I think, but it's all manual, not automatic or algorithmic, which is what larger sites such as FB, Twitter, and others must have. Also, who is "we" my friend? I don't think it's you or me, or any other member here in TGG. I suppose you mean "the human race?" Back to my earlier comment that somehow this filtering needs to be done automatically and I'm confident that a lot of smart people are focusing on that problem now. After all, most folks at Google, FB, Twitter, et al, aren't in love with Trump and it's reasonable to say that the fake news had a part in his election. Stay tuned. Perhaps we'll see random video connection services for people who have been pre-screened for common interests. Hmmm. Idea for a new company?