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    Default When you first started camming..

    ...I'd like to know what your stories are from when you first began camming! What made you want to try it out? Where did you start? Embarrassing moments from your first few months?

    When I first started camming.. I did it for FREE. I was young, stupid, and horny.. and would go into the yahoo chat rooms and show it all. One night I was on yahoo but not on cam and a guy that ALWAYS watched my cam when I was on- said he would *pay* me to get on cam. I was like O.o? I had a paypal acct b/c I had bought some stuff on ebay, so he sent the money ($20 for 20 minutes.. I know, I know..) and I did my thang.

    Of course being the porn addict I am, I found IMlive pop-ups on some sites and decided to sign up. I did it on and off for a few years (yahoo and imlive) til I found STRIPPERWEB!!!
    I came across SW because IMLive was fkin w/ my money, so I did a google search and landed here.

    Then I moved on to Streamate, then went completely indie. But I will be back mainstream very soon.

    My first webcam was:

    My first (extremely) embarrassing moment: I didn't know my sound was on (I was still living with parents at this time) and my mom started knocking on my door while I was camming... I yelled 'NOT RIGHT NOW MA!!!' like real loud and agitated (my ass was facing the camera.. LOL).. needless to say, the custy got the hell out of there and I was like
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    I used to have a stickam account, and was obsessed with camming. I even had a boy for a month that was in the army, who I was skype with all day every day even if my friends were over. I loved the connection, and I loved being admired on cam. Don't know why, and it makes me sound really high-egoed

    I found out about camming after I'd been kicked out of my family's house and was forced to live with my boyfriend in a party house filled with 5 guys+friends. I was looking for ANYTHING I could do to make money to get me out, and suddenly I found this The first time I even tried it I didn't know what the hell I was doing, and I got rid of my site (along with my money I'd made) so no one would find out I still get nervous about being caught, and I leave if anyone starts saying they found me from a site like 4chan that I didn't post myself.

    I'd say my first embarrassing moment was probably.. Oh gosh I had a night that I was asked to tell a joke, and I was SO excited. I told them I would tell them my favorite one, so I did. "There are two muffins in a oven. One muffin turns to the other muffin and says 'man it's hot in there!' and the other muffin turns and yells 'OH MY GOD A TALKING MUFFIN!!!'". They laughed their asses off at me, because I turned bright red right away. It was hillarious, and the guys think I'm great shit because of it, but now they always try to embarrass me

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    I don't know if anyone remembers ICU2 or powow.. or when there was a time that ICQ was the only instant messenger program but ICU2 was a cam to cam program my sister had me set up on my computer so we could do things like show each other our new apartments, outfits, new pet tricks.. just family stuff. Then one day she told me someone in Italy messaged her because he had never spoken to anyone outside his country. That sounded fun to me. I had never spoken to anyone outside the US so I started being a little more social.

    Funny though, it was the American men that were the first to offer gifts for anything that wasn't "family oriented". I was so offended. I thought it was rude, crude and absurd until someone actually sent me a $800 check simply to chit chat with him in short shorts and a low cut top. The money was to be used for my health care issue at the time, and it was then that I decided there must more earning potential in a new medium than what I was doing for a living at the time. Back then, it was a different person that was on the internet, it wasn't mainstream yet. The only guys that had a home computer and internet connection were pretty much the the Wallstreet guys in Manhattan who had investments in AOL and the new tech industry , top executives that had the extra time and cash on their hands and the nerds from IBM and a newly famous company called Microsoft up in Seattle that were making $380k/year simply because they were the only people who knew what an ISB port was.

    Long story short, I was using UCU2, CUCME and ICQ along with a PO box until one of the guys up in Seattle told me about a brand new dating site called ifriends. The site was originally designed to be a C2C dating site but its members are the ones who turned it into an adult entertainment site.

    The rest is history!

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    I did live house and free vids on Rude.com 'Nuff said
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    Craigslist ad, ha! Classy, I know.

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    i first started with a studio, looooooooooooong ago... a friend of mine " recruited" me, she was getting a % of my first 3 months or something .. i dont remember lol.
    that intel was my first cam too!!
    I still have it and it still works and looks good considering that its a fossil.

    my prices were $1.99 or less across the board and I was making not more than $1000/mo after the 50 % studio cut..
    took me about 2 years to break free and do it on my own...
    took me another 2 years to discover the " good" sites...
    took me another 2 years to earn good $
    yet another 2 years to start saving.....
    I learnt the hard way that its best to smarten up.. thats why Im always " yelling" at new cam girls to get it right the first time...

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    I never knew camming even existed!!!!!!!!!! Thought adult work consisted of porn movie actors and picture websites and that was it. The only fetish i was ever exposed to came from bizarre magazine LMAO.

    Once day last year (after 30 whole years of my life totally unsuspecting!) I was reading a thread about extra income on a popular money saving website and people were talking about PSO. I saw AW mentioned a few times throughout the thread and went to check it out. I actually made an account there and set up my profile a good 2 months before i had the guts to try it out. For a week i tried PSO there are made very little so i thought fuck it let's give camming a go. I had such a good night it blew me away and BAM I'm a camgirl

    I messaged a few of the top girls on there (naively i know now lol), hoping they would give me some tips. 99% ignored me completely but 2 girls helped me so much I don't think i could ever repay them. Because of this i set my prices at a decent rate from the very start - lower than the top established girls, but still expensive by most standards

    I am only sorry I wasted 10 fucking years on climbing the corporate ladder when I could have been earning real ££££ and have loads saved up by now!

    My first night on cam went surprisingly smoothly. I think i took to it like a duck to water. I'm not shy, and had done a lot of research and watched other girls before putting my cam on so i knew what was expected and some of the things i might encounter. I turned on my cam, and just went with whatever came along

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    I tried it years ago. I don't think I stuck it out long enough to see a benefit. I'm kind of shy.

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    LOL well I used to cam on yahoo with male friends of mine....I used to have a blast doing so...anyway I discovered I could make money doing it for real, so I signed up with imlive. When I started actually working, it was funny cause I already knew wut to do....have not looked back since lol
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    Was camming as early as 96 with a site that was affiliated with WebPower now known as iFriends. Started on iFriends when they began, but was not doing nude, was their resident astrologer in the psychic section, too shy to cam at the time. Finally got talked into the adult side by regulars and would only do one on one password protected privates for a few years before I got divorced and felt more daring. Hid the fact I cammed from hubby since I had an office I leased for my astrology biz. Been at it over 14 years and learn something new everyday.

    Had the round cam as the first cam, then had the Intel as shown above..then plugged in a camcorder to the Intel shown above. Now have HD webcam. Funny how guys were so eager to see such a crappy cam image and we were all on dial up and maybe 2% offered phone back then! LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fridays View Post
    I learnt the hard way that its best to smarten up.. thats why Im always " yelling" at new cam girls to get it right the first time...
    Thanks so much for sharing this, I actually had wondered why you were very passionate about it and it makes perfect sense!
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    Me and my friends are so mature that we prank called my friend's boyfriend on a restricted number. I always came up with the dirty talk, I guess, because they laughed so hard and made me call more males they knew to laugh. Lol. They joked that I should be a phone sex lady, so I applied one time but didn't really understand or know what it was about. Then I had a dancer friend who introduced me to camming. I started out on IMlive (blah) (and for way too long before discovering Streamate and better sites, passive income, better webcams and computers, how to deal with freeloaders amongst various other mistakes!) Now I am happy with where I am at, and I cannot wait to keep on climbing. It's the perfect way to pay for school and have a life, I enjoy it, and hey, if my comp eng degree does not work out down the road, I will always have this!

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    I would have never cammed if not for stripper web. I guess that makes me everything everyone fears when it comes to sharing too much information here (dun Dun DUN!)

    I found the site when looking into stripping. I stayed on that side of the board absorbing info until my first night at the club when I found it DEFINITELY wasn't for me. I gave it the good old college try, but I just couldn't handle the contact. That's when I started reading the camming posts and the rest is (very recent) history.

    As far as embarrassing things, my very first time camming I toppled right off my bed. I am pretty clumsy in real life so I played it off well, but I'm pretty sure that moment sealed me in as a goofy girl next door on MFC.


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    I bought my first webcam in 2002 using Creative brand. What got me started reading people blogs that had webcam snap shots of them. Most of the people found around the same age and women. So, I pick on the hobby doing the same. Back then, I treated cam as something casual (non-sexual) to do out of boredom. Soon, I saw other women being more sexual on cam, taking sexy/nude photos, doing indy cam shows for money on IM chat applications, advertising themselves on camgirl listing directories (cambangs, cambabes, i friends, etc.). I was too afraid trying to do the same at first, but it all change after being in long distance relationship doing cam to cam with ex-boyfriend.

    When the relationship ended, I develop interest doing cam for money, upgraded to three different Logitech models over the years, and I love the money it being legit work from home

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