Camfrog Video Chat is a video chat client designed for those that want to meet new people on the net and have a chat using their webcam.
Camfrog Video Chat sounds innocent enough and
generally it is, although its a bit disconcerting when it asks you for
your marital status as mandatory during registration! The Camfrog Video
Chat interface is similar to that of an IM client with contacts listed
down the right hand and a messaging box along the bottom. When you log
in, you're asked whether you want to join the main Camfrog Video Chat room or a specific room such as Latino, LearnEnglish, Single and a special room for those using sign language.
When you log into a Camfrog forum room, the
rules are made clear - "No disturbing the room with repeated text or
spamming" and "No nudity or asking others to get nude", for example. The
main Camfrog Video Chat room is chaos though. Because there are several
people all communicating at once, all you see is a flurry of random
messages between users. Click on a contact, and you can usually see
their webcam (unless they are categorized as a "lurker" which means
their webcam is paused for a while).
The Camfrog Video Chat video and sound
quality are pretty good and it's amazing how many people are online.
It's much nicer to meet people "face-to-face" in this way rather than
just chatting to them anonymously. It would be nicer to expand the size
of the video but this is only available in the pro version. The same
goes for seeing multiple videos at once. The overall Camfrog Video Chat
interface looks a bit retro however - like MSN Messenger a few years ago
- and feels a little bit cheap.
There are plenty of people online and Camfrog Video Chat has a lot of potential as a group collaboration tool. If you just want to meet friends though, you shouldn't have any problems if you persevere.
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