So last night I was on the website Omegle. It allows you to chat with complete strangers. Most of the people on there are simply looking for girls to trade dirty pics or other stuff. I was just trying to find someone to talk to, as it was late and most of my friends weren’t online.
I was eventually connected to a girl who was 21 (I’m 23). She said she was studying astronomy in college. Throughout the chat I kept mentioning she was 21 and she never corrected me. We chatted a bit about cartoons, astronomy, drama, etc. I admit it did get a little immature, as we joked about scenarios where we meet a crush and we make a fool of ourselves (example, wearing goofy print underwear, a bee or spider crawls down our shirt or pants and we freak out, etc.). At no point did I ever say crap like “hey let’s meet up for sex!” or “hey, i’m taking your clothes off as we lay in bed” or “I want to [insert graphic sex act here]” or “hey, send me naked pictures ;)” because I knew no one would want to talk to me on that site if my intentions were to have cyber sex.
At the end of the chat, the girl then revealed she was lying about something. I assumed it was that it was really a guy (which would be a little weird, but again, since this wasn’t a chat about doing each other, I really could care less), but she shocked me by saying she lied about her age and she was under 16! I made sure to copy paste the chat onto a text file just in case.
Now I’ve become extremely nervous and anxious. She never suggested that she was creeped out by me, but now I keep looking over my shoulder, thinking the police are going to arrest me and charge me with talking to a minor. My heart races when a cop car is nearby.
I don’t want to be classified in the same crime as those sickos from that NBC show everyone talks about! I know it’s against the law for grown men to chat with minors online and had the person told me in the beginning she was younger I would have ended the chat right there to avoid legal trouble.