Voice chat in Japan
Voice chat fills me with dread, so it’s something I’ve never felt the desire to do, even though I have been invited to some meetings and have also found others with topics that interest me. However, a recent survey reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by Cross Marketing Inc into this very topic of voice chat produced a slightly unexpectedly high number of user.
Demographics
Over the 23rd and 24th of January 2008 300 members of the Cross Marketing online panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. As usual for Cross Marketing, 50.0% were male and 50.0% female, 20.0% in their teens, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, and 20.0% in their fifties.
I went looking for some voice chat pictures to illustrate this story, but instead I found some rather dodgy sites; there’s at least one place selling chat with dodgy-looking anime characters at 1,200 yen (around US$12) per hour, and another charming place that bans foreigners.
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