Nobody is here yet.

This room only ever shows people who are in it right now — so when it is empty, it is honestly empty. Leave the tab open and you will see faces arrive.

Bumproom

Who are you, then?

A name, an age, a line, and roughly where you are. That is enough to take your place for the 9th. You appear in the room only while this tab is open, and vanish the moment you leave. Nothing said here is ever saved.

A photo is only needed to walk into the room, because everyone in it is a face and every face is looked at by a person first. You can add yours now or come back and add it later.

Optional for now. Your face, not a cat, not a landscape. Cropped square here in the browser, which also strips the location your camera wrote into the file.

Your address is how you get back in on another device, and the only way we could ever tell you something happened. It is never shown to anybody in the room.

Bumproom does not conduct criminal background checks and does not verify anyone's identity. It is an online technology service, not a matchmaking or introduction agency. Read the safety notice before you meet anybody.

Come back in

The address and passphrase on your account.

Report

This also blocks them, straight away and both ways. What they said to you is kept with the report so it can be looked at — it is the one thing here that is not deleted.

If somebody is in danger, tell the police. This goes to whoever runs this installation, and nobody else.

Who would like to talk

They pressed the arrow on your picture. A bump lasts half an hour and then it is gone, so this is who wants to talk now. The room only ever sees the number — you are the only one who sees the names.

Bumproom asks

 

someone asked

 

Put something up

A question or a statement, for whoever is in the room. It goes up as a bubble with your name on it, and it does not last long.

Also here

The screen holds so many faces at once, so these are waiting. They are the ones who have been here longest — whoever arrives is shown first.

How was your day?

Say it, or show it in 23 seconds. Here for a few days, then gone.

Yours, and anybody else’s, for a few days.

Your conversations

Who you have talked to, and how often. What was actually said is never kept — it lives while the box is open and goes when it closes.