Recently I found an interesting website which is called Omegle and it’s a website that connected to whole world and if you type something it randomly send the message to anyone in the world who is also on the Omegle. Its basic idea is just like a chat room and the difference is that you can not trace his/her/it IP address and you don't know who is talking to you and where that person is from, it's all picked randomly online. The main language is used in English and I heard a funny thing is that we two strangers bump into each other online if one says where you from and then 95% or above that person is from China ha-ha interesting, because Chinese people would like to ask this questions and westerners turn to not ask. I think this is a cool website coz you could chat with someone you totally have no idea of who that person is, and if you don't feel like to talk to this person anymore you just click the disconnect and then the system is going to choose a new stranger to talk to you. But this is also something that we called disadvantage, because if you guys do not leave each other the contact then you may never meet him/her again, no way that you could trace this person anymore. But anyway we are not talking about social or flatting with someone, here is the language learning that we are talking about. I think this is a good way to learn English since the whole website force you to do so, you don't know who that person is in the first place and you have to use English the international language to communicate with others. A better thing that I want to mention here compared to second life is this is language focus, that is no game no distractions.
There is another function of this website as well. It has video chat room and you could have someone who’s randomly picked from the site to have video chat with him/her. However I don’t recommend that just like what I mentioned previously here is the language learning we are concerned not to make some real friends though.( however you can make some, but I just don’t want to things are out of the track). Anyway this is a good tool and a fresh one for students to try out. But I have to say that this web also got its disadvantages coz sometimes people talk sex online and maybe it's not appropriate for teenagers. However as soon as you find someone is talking something that loathes you could quit the conversation immediately. All is up to you.
Hmmm.....scary application. I see a lot of predators out there capitalizing on this program. Better think twice before using it.
回覆刪除OK Trinity, I have reservations about this as well. A friend in Taipei did say that the trouble with the Internet is everybody wears a mask. So this random person you are chatting to, are they telling the truth or are they lying through their teeth ? I for one would rather chat with people that I knew.
回覆刪除Wow, an interesting chatting website. Why we need to know each other? Just chatting and have fun. That's enough!
回覆刪除i think netizens should learn how to behave properly. Teachers(may or may not be English teachers) should teach the online etiquette to students. but still, i think it's hard to prevent the youngsters access to improper websites
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