{"id":12243,"date":"2023-11-15T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/goodbye-omegle-how-the-anonymous-chatroom-traumatized-our-teen-years\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:37:47","slug":"goodbye-omegle-how-the-anonymous-chatroom-traumatized-our-teen-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/goodbye-omegle-how-the-anonymous-chatroom-traumatized-our-teen-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Omegle: how the anonymous chatroom traumatized our teen years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My generation became a target for abuse on the video-chat site \u2013 and our parents had no idea<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This article contains descriptions of online child abuse and self-harm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was usually only a matter of minutes before we\u2019d see the first penis. As we huddled giggling around someone\u2019s family computer, hauled into a bedroom for secrecy, they became a routine part of our childhood sleepovers. One after another, the penises would flash up on screen, as we fell about screaming with laughter, half-covering our eyes with our school jumper sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEwwww! Next, next!\u201d Someone would click \u201cnext\u201d. The routine began again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/nov\/15\/omegle-closing-random-video-chat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bfb2fd17828e3e15d1f3c3286456e37134b8e9fc\/0_0_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=47d08c53cc5c56a61cf679547595aca2\" title=\"Goodbye Omegle: how the anonymous chatroom traumatized our teen years\" \/>My generation became a target for abuse on the video-chat site \u2013 and our parents had no idea<br \/>\nThis article contains descriptions of online child abuse and self-harm<br \/>\nIt was usually only a matter of minutes before we\u2019d see the first penis. As we huddled giggling around someone\u2019s family computer, hauled into a bedroom for secrecy, they became a routine part of our childhood sleepovers. One after another, the penises would flash up on screen, as we fell about screaming with laughter, half-covering our eyes with our school jumper sleeves.<br \/>\n\u201cEwwww! Next, next!\u201d Someone would click \u201cnext\u201d. The routine began again. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My generation became a target for abuse on the video-chat site \u2013 and our parents had no idea This article contains descriptions of online child abuse and self-harm It was usually only a matter of minutes before we\u2019d see the first penis. As we huddled giggling around someone\u2019s family computer, hauled into a bedroom for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/goodbye-omegle-how-the-anonymous-chatroom-traumatized-our-teen-years\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye Omegle: how the anonymous chatroom traumatized our teen years<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}