Stickam.com, the future in social networks
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Meet Yumna; a beautiful Middle Eastern, thin, 18 year old girl. She’s had stickam.com for only three months but already has quite a following. On her private chat, when she goes live, she has around eighty people watching her. She has a celebrity’s status with hundreds of males trying to get her attention. What’s her big draw? She doesn’t show tits or ass even though most of her fans want to see her naked. “Every guy will go into a girls room and ask if they show or not.”, but Yumna is “not into that.” She further tells me that’s she’s seen a countless number of cam flashers.
Stickam.com is a webcam based social network. All members have a Myspace type of profile but there are also active chat rooms. The most popular room, “!*SHOW N TELL *!”, appears chaotic at first, usually populated by around eighty people. About 1/4 of them are streaming live video and sound. It’s only possible to watch twelve people simultaneously, but of course users choose by “docking” them to a top panel. Members also have the option to “go live”, meaning they start streaming live video which is indicated in the person’s profile. When being live, the stickam user has full options to broadcast the video publicly for attention or privately for intimate communication.
It’s Thursday 1:30 a.m. I’m in the public chat room “ALCOHOL/420” owned by a 44 year old named Albert. He is overweight, unattractive, with white messy hair and a hick persona. But he has a charismatic radio voice which grabs the attention of the audience. It’s titty night in his chat room, the online version of a wet t-shirt contest. Any girl, 18 and over, can participate by messaging Albert or his co-host illist_will. Age is determined by whatever the user typed in her profile. Minors are being booted by a designated security that is checking for underage members. Albert announces the girls who are in the competition; this allows the audience to know who they should dock in order not to miss the show.
The competition is ready to begin.
“Sexy_bitch is here to defend her title boys”, Albert yells.
Sexy_bitch is a slightly overweight, a Marilyn Manroe look alike who is ten years beyond her prime. She is the first one on the spot light, an honor that is usually given to the reneging champion.
“We are ready to begin titty night. When ever Sexy_bitch is ready we can begin”
With Albert’s encouragement she looks into her webcam with a wide smile, slowly stands up and completely removes her t-shirt.
“Oh my lord! The lord has blessed this girl with some nice titties”, he proclaims. The chat room is being flooded with text, people are typing numbers, mostly 20’s.
“Rate them tities boys, a 10 for each breast”. The scrolling is faster, people are voting multiple times.
“I think bendthechoir is going to win tonight” illist_will announces as a suggestion that she is up next. She sits up straight and grabs the bottom of her shirt.
“Shut em down boys, shut em down!” Albert commands.
A stickam.com admin has joined the room. Stickam has a no explicit material policy and administrators are instructed to ban girls who flash. Albert himself claims to have been banned over fifty times, but because of the free registration in ten minutes he comes right back.
“It’s time for a commercial break, Will.”
Illust_will begins looking around his desk finally grabbing a Miller beer bottle. He holds it up to his webcam and says “Tonight titty night was brought to you by Miller light, drink responsibly.” It’s all in good humor. The admin leaves and it’s back on with the show.
Later, I asked the stick admin what he thought about titty night.
“We are working on that at this point,” was his only comment.
“Titty night” is just one aspect of stickam.com but it by no means represents what the website is all about. Stickam.com could be the future of online chatting.