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"I just read a New York article about ChatRoulette and it really intrigued me. In fact, lately I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been hearing about so many new ways you can meet people. Some of these places are really wacky and creative. Find out more&amp;amp;#133;after the jump! ChatRoulette.com ChatRoulette is a new site that activates your web cam and allows you to talk to random strangers all over the world. When you see someone you don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to talk to, you hit &amp;amp;#8220;next&amp;amp;#8221; (which feels cruel) and you get the next person. I thought I would be too shy to try it, but I figured I had to, just for you ladies. I saw a guy lying (clothed!) in bed and I caught a bearded guy picking his nose. Then I met a young, cute guy in Sao Paulo. I told him I&amp;amp;#8217;d just gotten back from Rio de Janeiro and loved it. We chatted IM-style, then he spoke. It was my first conversation. When I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t understand his accent, he would type. Ladies, I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t see one woman on this site. It was all men. You could hit a ton of guys in just 2 minutes. My roommate Erica was really shy about it, so I waited until she&amp;#x27;d gotten into her sweatpants and washed her face, then I turned on ChatRoulette and kept moving my laptop so the camera would point at her. She was diving for cover on the floor and crawling and rolling like an army recruit on an obstacle course. I kept turning it on her. We were dying laughing. Whoever the guy was that was watching never hit &amp;amp;#8220;Next.&amp;amp;#8221; Also: Check out this ChatRoulette party at a bar in Brooklyn. ILoveYourAccent.com If your deal-breaker is &amp;amp;#8220;no accent,&amp;amp;#8221; log on to I Love Your Accent and find a mate across the pond&amp;amp;#8212;or discover an accented bloke living in the next zip code. The site is mostly populated by Brits and Americans, but they have daters from other countries as well. After that, if you still want to expand your global network, check out French Tuesdays and A Small World&amp;amp;#8212;and if you join, look me up! HowAboutWe.com If you&amp;amp;#8217;re adventurous and you live in the New York area, search for a mate not based on looks or silly profile summaries, but based on date ideas. You can propose a date&amp;amp;#8212;like tandem surfing while drinking beer out of one of those helmets&amp;amp;#8212;and see who&amp;amp;#8217;s game. (In beta now. To pre-register, click here). Blood Mobile. I just ran into a guy who was about to go on his second date with a &amp;amp;#8220;hot girl&amp;amp;#8221; he met while donating blood. He actually spotted her on the street, saw her go into a Blood Mobile and followed her in there. Hey, you never know what Type O might be following you! Attend a male-friendly convention. There&amp;amp;#8217;s the Hearth, Patio &amp;amp; Barbecue Expo (March 11-13, 2010 in Orlando), Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America\uFFFD (April 7-10, 2010 in Chicago), Comic-Con International (July 22-25, 2010 in San Diego), and the National Sports Collectors Convention (August 4-8, 2010 in Baltimore). Just do your research beforehand and don&amp;amp;#8217;t stumble into anything weird. On my 21st birthday, I kissed a bartender in San Diego, and then ran into him the next day in Vegas&amp;amp;#8212;at a porn convention. Awkward! Chance Dinners. This NYC organization hosts pre-fixe dinners for 20-50 men and women, usually in private dining rooms at restaurants. It&amp;amp;#8217;s nice that Chance Dinners take care of the logistics. They &amp;amp;#8220;streamline the experience by dispatching with the suckiest parts: The Menu and The Check.&amp;amp;#8221; You just have to click with someone. It sounds cool and I always meant to try Chance Dinners but never did because of scheduling. Twitter.com I once enjoyed an extended, passive flirtation with a guy I was following on Twitter and vice versa. We would each mention @TheOtherPerson in the context of our tweets. Finally, he took it to the Direct Message level. Still, we were communicating in just 140 characters. It wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t enough to get off the ground, but that&amp;amp;#8217;s just me. Why not follow your crush? You never know. Finally, don&amp;amp;#8217;t forget about all the conventional places to meet someone: volunteer events, dating web sites, church, work functions, dinner parties, birthday parties, alumni fundraisers, boot camps, co-ed sports teams, and retreats. Which one of these methods would you try? Have you been on ChatRoulette? Did it freak you out? More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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