social media "live" profiles

I just ran across a new social media site offering webcams, chat and personals that sounds somewhat interesting. The site, which I found via PayPerPost, is called Person.com, and it books itself as a cross between popular social media sites like myspace and video-based online dating. The approach is unique - it combines live webcams with personal profiles. I can see some benefits here - for one thing, people will have more trouble spoofing their identity, and spotting spam-based accounts should be easier (assuming that a webcam feed is required). Of course, those who are feeling the loss of privacy that the Web 2.0 trend incurs may find this a step into more uncomfortable territory.

However, aside from a more enhanced profile system, I have to wonder what makes this site that different from previous webcam sites that I have seen before. I also wonder if their offering will be a bit more policed than myspace, which tends to depend on their users for identifying and removing objectionable content. Honestly, I don't see how a site would be able to monitor for objectionable content if every user has a streaming webcam running. I had assumed that they would require some sort of age verification at signup, but upon checking out their signup form, it appears that all they require is a checkbox that states that you are 18 or older.

In a nutshell, if I were looking to meet singles, I'd be afraid that, like myspace, many of the people I ran across on this site were sexually liberated exhibitionist-happy jailbait teens.