Rounds No Longer Lets Teens 'Meet New People' via Video Chat

Sorry, kids: Rounds CEO and co-founder Dany Fishel has declared that the "era of rapid, random video chat is over." Today, the video chat hangout service has announced the retirement of its "Meet New People" feature, forcing teens to talk to their actual friends.

Sorry, kids: Rounds CEO and co-founder Dany Fishel has declared that the “era of rapid, random video chat is over.” Today, the video chat hangout service has announced the retirement of its “Meet New People” feature, forcing teens to talk to their actual friends.

When Rounds launched its mobile video chat app for Facebook in December, the application used a social matching algorithm to connect its 7 million users to other people with whom they could watch videos, play games, and share photos.

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