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I've been able to video chat with EVERY contact I have through a range of services (Gtalk/Gmail, Skype, MSN Messenger, iChat and even my Nokia N95) for years no

I've been able to video chat with EVERY contact I have through a range of services (Gtalk/Gmail, Skype, MSN Messenger, iChat and even my Nokia N95) for years now, and I still don't feel the incentive to do it - so that's why I'm not too excited about the announcements from FB today. Group video chat, however, is another beast. You can hangout with multiple friends together or do team meetings with your colleague from home. I can see that work. So, for now, G+ has the advantage here. I'm still waiting for Skype to drop it's ridiculous pricing.

alexsb92 15y ago
I definitely understand that, but I think that's only one use case. The case I am most familiar with is mine. I moved to Canada 4 years ago, right at the beginning of high school, and right at the beginning of FB going big mainstream. This meant that I met a lot of people since then, and since it was the period when FB was getting big, I would just friend people on Facebook. Before FB chat came out, if I needed to chat with them afterwards, I would get their email from their profile, or if it wasn't listed I'd ask around. When Chat came out, I stopped doing that and I would just chat with the people I didn't have on MSN/Gtalk on FB. I'm sure there's tons of people in the same/similar situation that I had.