Omegle

Omegle is a quick way to meet utterly banal people.

To save you the trouble, Omegle is a web chat where you click 'connect' and get randomly connected with some other person who has also just wandered by, and chat. No introduction, no details, no profile, no anything; you're both totally anonymous.

I think I can sum it up by saying that before today, I had managed to go five years without seeing the phrase a/s/l? uttered in earnest, and I am not at all happy to have had my streak broken twice in ten minutes.

Of twenty conversations, only one person ever punctuated and capitalized correctly, and they left off doing so after greeting me ("Hi! Woot! How are you?"). I'm more than willing to forgive the Swede with whom I had the longest conversation — not merely because English was not their native language, but also because it was 4:46 AM Stockholm time — but neither of those was true for most of the people I spoke with.

People are stupid, have you noticed?

(Via Randall Munroe.)