online chat platform Omegle has officially shut down after 14 years why know

A well-known website named Omegle has shut down after nearly 14 years of operations. It was popular among those who were interested in talking or chatting with strangers around the world. According to reports, the cost of running the website and preventing its misuse was very high. As a result, it was decided to shut down the website. The website was launched in the year 2009. Its specialty was that users did not have to give any details about themselves and they could talk to other people.

NDTV of Report According to , Omegle owner Leif K-Brooks said that this decision was taken because there was a lot of cost in operating Omegle and combating its misuse.

Omegle also became popular among people because users did not have to register to chat. The website also gained popularity during Covid-19. People confined to their homes were chatting with strangers through this website.

Not only can chatting happen on this website, but users can also talk in audio or video format. Despite so many facilities, the name of ‘Omegle’ is associated with controversies. Many users complained that they had to face racism and abuse on the website. Cases of child sexual abuse also came to light in connection with this website.

Although the website tried to avoid these problems and increased the age limit for entry into the chat rooms to 18 years, cases continued to come to light as there was no compulsion to verify age and racists and other people did not stop from coming to the website.

Omegle was widely used in foreign countries. It probably did not gain much popularity in India. Omegle is not an isolated case. Many such websites have been shut down in the era of the internet, which were very popular. Orkut was one of them. In India too, millions of people used Orkut.