If you haven’t heard of Chatroulette, you’ve obviously been living under a rock in terms of keeping up with internet memes! Okay, so maybe keeping up with internet memes isn’t really all that important, but still, who are you??!!! Anyway, Chatroulette essentially provides a chatting service that mimics the game of roulette in the sense that you are randomly connected with another user, while you’re both streaming yourselves on webcam live. If that sounds stupid to you, it’s not – and you’re stupid! It is the most awesome-est thing ever, and this site came up with the idea in the first place! Well, at least the video part, the concept of “roulette chat” actually was invented by Omegle, but Chatroulette made the concept way more popular, so I guess in the end they both deserve equal credit maybe? I don’t know.

Anyway, as you might expect with the first site in a particular category that is sort of new and intriguing, Chatroulette went viral and gained a lot of prominence, getting featured on major media outlets and even in South Park. Although initially it had more users than it does now, it seems to be maintaining its current user levels quite handily, and to the tune of millions a month! So yea, there are plenty of people online at any given time to ensure you always get a fresh batch of randomness. You can check out the random webcam chat granddaddy of them all by going to www.chatroulette.com.

 If the word “Omegle” doesn’t mean anything to you, don’t despair. It is, after all, rather unorthodox compared to your typical chat site name. According to Wikipedia, the founder choose this name as a “combination of the words omega and mingle.” Knowing this, of course, causes the name to make more sense to the average user. But with such an unsual name, could this site be any good? Frankly, it’s amazing! Omegle is one of the most popular chat websites on the web, and it uses a “random” or “roulette” format similar to the infamous Chatroulette. However, there are key distinctions between Omegle and Chatroulette:

1. Omegle came first. Yep, it’s true, Omegle was around before Chatroulette ever hit the internets! BUT, it was text-only.
2. Omegle has both text-only and video-only versions. This is great for users who get tired of showing their faces, or tired of having to mute that annoying music that’s too loud.
3. Omegle has “spy mode”. This mode allows you to ask a question and then watch two people have a conversation and try to answer it, it can be very entertaining!
4. Omegle has interest-based matching. You can directly type in what you’re interested in, or even use your Facebook likes! This is a great feature when you’re looking for that targeted connection, but let’s face it, sometimes you just want to go 100% random and see what happens 🙂

So there you have it, Omegle is WAY different from Chatroulette. And there are other sites out there that are different from BOTH of these, such as iMeetzu. But, we’re not going to get into all the other options right now, first you have to check out the site we’ve already been talking about! You can visit Omegle at www.omegle.com.