Facelette Is Chatroulette For FaceTime

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FaceTime for Mac is pretty cool, but it lacks spice. As Chatroulette amply proved, the thril of cold video calling random strangers is spicy indeed. Who will pick up? A nose-picking teenage girl? A throbbing erection with googly eyes glued upon the glans? A foul-mouthed puppet? If only FaceTime could match that degree of titillation!

Well, now it can, thanks to an enterprising programmer named Zach Holman, who has thrown together Facelette. It’s essentially Chatroulette for FaceTime, pairing two random people together through a FaceTime connection.

It’s fun — well, fun if you like Chatroulette, or if you don’t know anyone to test the FaceTime for Mac beta with — but it’s not exactly secure. There’s no anonymity at play here: once Facelette pairs you with another user, they’ll be able to see your email address and/or phone number, the same as they would be able to do in a regular FaceTime call.

That’s enough reason to be wary: you definitely don’t want that creepy guy you’re randomly connected to suddenly calling you at all hours of the night. On the other hand, though, the lack of anonymity might be enough to maintain a semblance of class on Facelette that has long been absent from Chatroulette. Then again, that probably misses the point too: the whole idea of Chatroulette is anonymous video chat unburdened by conventional doctrines of decency.

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