This is what I want to do. I want to start a worldwide prepaid cellphone company where you get a certain number of minutes for using the company’s integrated “Strangerline” and talk to a complete stranger for a few minutes. Running low on cash and cellphone minutes? Dial “STRANGER” and you get credited one minute to your account for every minute you talk to a stranger. The system’s randomized, so you might be talking to someone a block over or across the ocean.

Small worldism. Bringing people together. Making it attractive and useful, a good time investment for people concerned along those lines.

Lots of problems, I know, especially people who might abuse the system to harass or offend. But I dig this idea. Do you?

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