Web Cam Weirdos

As I observed the other day, when half of you seemed to get the wrong impression and thought that I'd had a bizarre falling out with someone over "de-friending" on LJ - I didn't, it was someone else, hence the title - there are some odd people on Live Journal. What I should have said is that there are some very odd people on the web.

Notice how I managed to be more specific there, by being more general? There must be a word for that sort of thing¹.

I have, dear reader, been investigating the murky world of webcams.

Mine own webcam is rarely turned on, because quite frankly, there's nothing here to look at when I'm away, and when I'm on-line it's usually too dark for my cheapo webcam to do much more than show my silhouette to the world². Anyway, that apart, why would anyone want to log on and watch me typing and/or drinking coffee? I occasionally use it and its inbuilt mic for conversations over Messenger, Skype or some similar application, but beyond that it pretty much just gathers dust on top of my monitor.

I am clearly too unadventurous.

As I said, I have been investigating the world of the webcam³. Oh dear. Sad and lonely people everywhere; most, but by no means all of them male, many overweight and seemingly in the middle of a clothing crisis. Quite apart from various levels of quite unattractive dishabillé, there is the question, usually best left unasked, and certainly undeserving of an answer, of the things they get up to on their webcams. Suffice it to say, that just seeing unclothed fatties at the computer is comparatively welcome compared with some of the ahem bodily antics they choose to broadcast.

Why would anyone want to do this? There are enough grotesques around as it is, thank you very much, without such dysfunctional behaviour. All the wonders of the web, the miracle of technology, information resources beyond your wildest dreams, games, entertainment, the lot. It's an interesting place with much to recommend it.

But I don't think we need the Freak Porn thanks, ever so.

Maybe I'm too old and prudish, but I don't get it.

¹"Idiot", probably.
²If only I knew how to rig it for sound, I might be able to try the Mad Scientist routine, whereby my silhouette issues demands to the world.
³By which I mean that I have been looking at other people's webcams.

Web Cam Weirdos

As I observed the other day, when half of you seemed to get the wrong impression and thought that I'd had a bizarre falling out with someone over "de-friending" on LJ - I didn't, it was someone else, hence the title - there are some odd people on Live Journal. What I should have said is that there are some very odd people on the web.

Notice how I managed to be more specific there, by being more general? There must be a word for that sort of thing¹.

I have, dear reader, been investigating the murky world of webcams.

Mine own webcam is rarely turned on, because quite frankly, there's nothing here to look at when I'm away, and when I'm on-line it's usually too dark for my cheapo webcam to do much more than show my silhouette to the world². Anyway, that apart, why would anyone want to log on and watch me typing and/or drinking coffee? I occasionally use it and its inbuilt mic for conversations over Messenger, Skype or some similar application, but beyond that it pretty much just gathers dust on top of my monitor.

I am clearly too unadventurous.

As I said, I have been investigating the world of the webcam³. Oh dear. Sad and lonely people everywhere; most, but by no means all of them male, many overweight and seemingly in the middle of a clothing crisis. Quite apart from various levels of quite unattractive dishabillé, there is the question, usually best left unasked, and certainly undeserving of an answer, of the things they get up to on their webcams. Suffice it to say, that just seeing unclothed fatties at the computer is comparatively welcome compared with some of the ahem bodily antics they choose to broadcast.

Why would anyone want to do this? There are enough grotesques around as it is, thank you very much, without such dysfunctional behaviour. All the wonders of the web, the miracle of technology, information resources beyond your wildest dreams, games, entertainment, the lot. It's an interesting place with much to recommend it.

But I don't think we need the Freak Porn thanks, ever so.

Maybe I'm too old and prudish, but I don't get it.

¹"Idiot", probably.
²If only I knew how to rig it for sound, I might be able to try the Mad Scientist routine, whereby my silhouette issues demands to the world.
³By which I mean that I have been looking at other people's webcams.