Omegle / Meet Up

1.   Both Omegle and Meet Up serve the purpose of meeting other people, and even sometimes meeting people with a specific interest that may match up with yours.  On Omegle especially you are constantly beginning new conversations, and new relationships.  When thinking about the different stages of relational development using Omegle you may initiate, differentiate, and terminate up to fifteen relationships within the first five minutes of using the tool.  While this is all a form of online interpersonal communication I feel that there is no way to truly connect using this tool.  However, on Meet Up you are able to find others who enjoy doing similar activities that you do and from that first connection I believe a lasting relationship can be forged. 
2. Omegle is used to talk to complete strangers, about absolutely random topics or one of your choosing.  Meet Up is used to find others with similar interests that you have and then go out and participate in those activities.  Both of these tools are a different form of interpersonal communication used to meet other people and make connections.  As a social media tool both of these succeed, however, as a tool being used to forge connections only Meet Up succeeds.
3. I thought that both Omegle and Meet Up were a unique way to communicate with people that you would not ordinarily meet.  With all of the millions of different specific niches in this world it is nice to have a site that has an easy way to find other people who want to do the same activities as you.  As far as social media sites go I actually enjoyed Meet Up and I am the first person to condemn any and all forms of social media.
4. On Omegle I found it extremely difficult to find a person who was actually on that site to talk seriously about a topic.  Most of the people on that site simply wish to be crude, and swear, and play on stereotypical biases to be ignorant.  Those individuals completely turned me off to using that site ever again.  On Meet Up you are able to find specific niche activity such as Lego Motion picture group. However this tool pulls from all over and these activities may be anywhere from five to 1,000 miles away.  It is sometimes difficult to find certain activities nearby your area.  You can set a search parameter of a specific amount of miles, but this limits your results.
5. Omegle in my opinion completely complicates communication because of all the ignorance that runs rampant through the users.  Meet Up on the other-hand most takes their users on a more personal level using their specific interests to make connections, and then from that it is up to the users to make lasting connections "in person" using face-to-face communication.  What I really enjoyed is the combination of online and offline communication used to make a successful social media tool.
6. On an overall basis I enjoyed learning about these new tools, mainly because of my intense love for everything technology.  Just because I love technology does not mean I will warmly embrace every new innovation.  I found Omegle disturbing and an all-in-all failure and Meet Up was a success in which I enjoyed using.