Is Chatroulette Really A Way To Regain Lost Privacy?

I don’t buy it:

- Nick Bilton, The Surreal World of Chatroulette

Our lives used to be private by default, yet with the advent of each new social network, privacy has become increasingly difficult to preserve. Every status update or photo we share online becomes an indelible tattoo of where we’ve been and who we’ve been with.

In contrast, Chatroulette is a social Web site that allows you to navigate somewhat incognito.

It is as incognito as watching someone eating a sandwich in a car as you drive past: this is drive-by voyeurism, or prank calls made late at night from a pay phone.