A 20-year-old Massachusetts man who loves "talking to people" posted his cell phone number on YouTube.com and got thousands of calls from strangers within days.

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"I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do about it," Ryan Fitzgerald of Southbridge, Mass., told the Boston Globe. "But something needs to be done, because I'm going to end up with a $20,000 phone bill."

Fitzgerald said he was motivated Friday to post his video, in which he looks at the camera and says "I never met you, but I do care," by a desire to pursue random human connections.

"Some people's own mothers won't take the time to sit down and talk with them and have a conversation," he told the Globe. "But some stranger on YouTube will. ... After six seconds, you're not a stranger anymore, you're a new kid I just met."

The Globe reported that Fitzgerald isn't the first person to post his number on YouTube.come. Luke Johnson of Arizona did the same thing last September to see how many calls he'd get. According to his voicemail, he's received 138,400 calls.