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It's exactly a distance thing. Close friends and family that want to see you. It's like going over to a friends house and hanging out. You don't have to pay
by mahyarm 15y ago
It's exactly a distance thing. Close friends and family that want to see you. It's like going over to a friends house and hanging out. You don't have to pay attention all the time, but it's nice to see facial expressions and such. You don't clip your nails for the entire conversation either, and you can stop and go within the conversation. Eventually video calls can take as much attention as an audio only call, and you can look at the person when you want to.
- rglullis 15y agoFunny. Just yesterday I had to use my girlfriend's laptop and (not being a mac user) I didn't know that Skype on Mac OS X has a "start video call" by default. I had a skype call with a business associate, and it was quite bad when I realized that I was talking to him without wearing a shirt, and that the camera started by itself. Now I can only hope that I was fast enough to cancel the video before it actually started streaming. Perhaps you are right in the sense that people will get used to the idea that "always-on" video is normal. However, I will not. I am as far as possible from being technophobic, it's just that I like the barrier of not being on display.