Internet Stranger Project

Posted by Theonlywonderboy on July 30, 2010, 2:12 p.m.

This is an idea that I had last night, and have put into affect today. Here's the description i wrote for the site:

"The world is full of interesting people, but finding them isn't always the easiest thing. The internet has has made this task much easier, but there are still plenty of undocumented people in this world whose stories I'd like to uncover.

Recently sites like Omegle have become popular, a chat service that randomly matches you with a stranger to talk to. Although there are a fair amount of immature people on these types of sites, I'm sure that there are some people who use these sites whose stories are worth recounting.

I'm going to start every conversation with "What's your story? What makes you interesting?", or some similar variation. I plan on posting any interesting conversation I have here."

Tumblr: http://isproject.tumblr.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/intstrangerproj

This is something I plan to update fairly regularly in my free time. If this idea interests you, please follow and spread the word. The two conversations I have posted are not the greatest, but are more of a sample of how I kind of want things to go.

Comments

Cesque 14 years, 3 months ago

Nice. But I think you should stick to one question instead of two (and alternate between them).

Theonlywonderboy 14 years, 3 months ago

@Zarniwooop I might interview some people from here once I start to actually do the interviews. That'll be more like a special feature that I will do less often. Also I'm open to checking out fan submitted conversations. Email any conversations to internetstrangerproject@gmail.com and I'll be sure to give it a look. Just let me know you're name or alias so I can give you credit for the conversation.

@firestormx As you can see I'm just currently using Tumblr to post all these. I have no knowledge of how to set up an actual website, so if we could work something out then that would be great.

@Cesque I tried asking the questions separately, but people would never tell me enough. I want them to work in tandem. I think a better wording would be, "What's your story, and what about it makes you interesting?"