How many of you are Skype-able?
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I am.
ReplyDeleteI amn't.
ReplyDeleteI can be, but usually don't have it loaded.
ReplyDeleteAs with the others--I have Skype but rarely use it.
ReplyDeleteI could be. Haven't used it yet. Usually use Google video chat.
ReplyDeleteHangouts > Skype
ReplyDeleteSkype is what I use for family and clients and occasionally multiplayer gaming. Which is another way of saying "I leave it closed unless I specifically need it"
ReplyDeleteHangouts programmatically ARE better than Skype, actually. Though I once was all "WHERE ARE THE VIDEOPHONES I WAS PROMISED", I find I can barely stand talking to people over a regular phone, much less a video connection.
ReplyDeleteTrue story: I use Skype to talk to family and some friends... and almost always just use the chat part of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat Evan "Skwid" Langlinais said, but I think I have an account for skype
ReplyDeleteKenneth Cavness As far as I can tell, voice communication is pretty much always an adjunct these days, typically something people use when they're gaming, so can't type messages out.
ReplyDeleteMike Kozlowski When I was in Chicago and on the train, people talked on their cell phones all the time. We and those we deal with might be an outlying demographic.
ReplyDeleteKenneth Cavness That was like three years ago!
ReplyDeleteMike Kozlowski It was like three WEEKS ago!
ReplyDeleteI avoid Skype at all costs.
ReplyDeleteTrue fact: When I installed Skype, it corrupted the performance of the various OS-level cut and paste features. To the point where Excel was nearly unusable because it would only cut and paste raw numbers, not formulas. This took me months to figure out because I thought I had done something to Excel by accident. It wasn't until I noticed that Word would not carry formatting information with its own cut and paste that I realized something else was the root cause and finally tracked it down to Skype.
Uninstall Skype, everything worked fine.
I would still not believe it if I hadn't found other people complaining about the same thing.
John Novak: That is epically fucked up!
ReplyDeleteOh, it really seriously was.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they've fixed it (since they've been bought by the vendor whose OS they fucked up!) and it was over a year ago, but basically... still peeved.
John Novak that's specifically Skype's "click to call" add-on, which of course is installed alongside the app by default. And yeah - a side effect off the ass-backwards way they implemented click-to-call was that it parsed everything while looking for things that MIGHT be phone numbers, and didn't put them back right.
ReplyDeleteJohn Rowat o.O Dude. That is epically stupid, really.
ReplyDeleteTo answer the original question, I am Skype-able and use it extensively to talk to family, but I hardly ever have it on except to talk to family.
Hm, I would only do the voice part. International phone calls are getting 'spensive. Can you hangout with just one person at a time?
ReplyDeleteIf you want person to person, though, Google Talk (the chat bar in G+ or GMail, or the separate app on mobile) is probably a better way to do video chat.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious why you think so, Mike Kozlowski?
ReplyDeleteEvan "Skwid" Langlinais Because it's designed for two-party, is easier to initiate, and you don't have to worry about it showing up in your G+ stream 'n' stuff?
ReplyDeleteFor the first part, there's no special advantage I can think of for being "designed for two-party", so maybe you could be more specific? For the second, I'm not signed into GChat via a browser basically ever (I prefer standalone IM apps), but "Start A Hangout" is always right there in the corner and works damn near instantly. For the last, only people you've invited to a Hangout see a notification that you hung out, unless you make it Public. So.
ReplyDeleteEvan "Skwid" Langlinais If I want to start a video chat with, say, Kenn, I just click his name, then click the camera icon, and viola, we are talking. To do a hangout, I guess I have to click that "hangouts" tab, and then create a hangout and share it with him or something?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I mean by "designed for." The experience of calling via chat is optimized for the specific purpose, whereas with a hangout, you're taking something designed for sharing with N people, and using it where n = 1, and it's a bit more awkward.
Mike Kozlowski actually, starting a hangout is the default button in gchat; you have to go into a menu to get legacy video chatting.
ReplyDeleteMike Bruce When you say "gchat" do you mean the Google Talk app, the GMail web page, or...?
ReplyDeleteMike Kozlowski the gmail web page.
ReplyDeleteMike Bruce HUH, you're right. Well, then, never mind.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, start a hangout that way, it's easier!
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ReplyDeleteI just want to talk to people without having to do my hair first.
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