Omegle is like a salmon, but both parties are voluntary and it all happens in the browser, rather than through instant message networks.

Salmon are apparently now on Yahoo Instant Messenger. And they're getting into creepy your mom joke territory:
voracioussalmon 11:24
I heard your mother has the AIDS, and I just wanted to give you my condolences. I didn't know I was infected.

(04:13:42 AM) InfantileSalmon: Are you willing to converse with a stranger?

I got an AIM message from cubedsalmon right after making my last post. The content of the message from this fishy user was The 100th Fibonacci number is 354224848179261915075.
The next few messages exchanged established that the person on the other end hadn't started the conversation and didn't know me. An LJ post about a similar conversation ( Read more... )