Gripe, grumble, whine and vent at BLAHtherapy.com
Random chat sites don’t seem to be going away any time soon. BLAH Therapy is the latest entrant that’s trying to put its own unique twist to the Chatroulette model. The easiest way to describe BLAH Therapy is that its like Chatroulette, with a specific purpose and no video (for now). You can either choose to be a “Listener” and help another user or be a “Venter” and chat your problems away. The service randomly connects you to a stranger for an anonymous therapy session.
Psychcentral.com tested BLAH Therapy and has a detailed review (with pros and cons).
I’m not sure if this is actually going to turn out to be a useful (and popular) social media site. As the review on Psychcentral points out, you can’t be sure that your chat logs will remain private. Further, BLAH Therapy doesn’t seem to make it clear what they plan to do with the chat logs. Of course, this is probably not going to stop people from using it. But a bigger problem may be that the specific purpose is too limiting and that BLAH Therapy may need to add more features to make it entertaining enough for users to stay engaged.
Time will tell, but for now it seems to be averaging around 300 active users online, which pales in comparison to Chatroulette’s supposed 20,000 active users.
Looks like shrinks don’t have much to worry about. Not yet, anyway
