Story Idea 1
Video Chatting
Why Now?
Campus live launched its new video chat last week, claiming it was "safer" than chatroulette, a site which has been in the news because of the obsenities reported on it.
Why is this interesting?
In my opinion anytime you are matching up two total strangers to have a conversation via the computer you could run across some problems.
Campus live forces people to have signed up for an account in order to video chat. I'm assuming this is so that they can hold people accountable for reported inapproriate behavior. But because of that, students have to give up information such as an email address. I understand that hackers can steal your information from any site, but isn't it more likely on a site like campus live, or chatroulette because you are being paired up with random kids from across the country? On chatroulette ther no signup or information necceassary.
It seems to me that this could create some identitiy problems, but its only been up and running for a week, so it may be too early to tell.
Here's the link from the Collegian's website about the site.
http://dailycollegian.com/2010/03/21/campuslive-launches-new-personalized-video-chat-service/
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