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I have Skype on my new laptop but hadn't tried it until today. My SIL got a new computer for the family, too, and asked if I had it. He said that he video talks to his Mom and sisters and I should try getting mine going. So I did and as he and his mother are the only other Skype user I know, they are the only two I added to my contacts list. Just a bit ago while I was Farmvilling, my Skype breaks in and it's my SILs mother. It took me a bit to figure out how to get it so she could see me. I'm not sure what I clicked but it worked! It was great fun. She lives in Fountain Hills, AZ.

Just wanted to share how much fun it was.

I think my dd needs to look in to it as her husband is heading for Iraq this month....have friends that are on it they seem to like it
sheila

That sounds very cool. But, I am just so darned ugly that once people saw my face fill their screen they would never contact me again...that would hurt my lil feelings.

snowball wrote:I think my dd needs to look in to it as her husband is heading for Iraq this month....have friends that are on it they seem to like it
sheila

My dd and gds used skype to visit with my SIL while he was overseas in Iraq. It wasn't perfect (delay), but better than nothing.

kdmac, my SIL's mother is beautiful. She is 70 and looks about 55. Her hair/makeup/dress is always to perfection. So here I sit, hair a mess, in a raggedy t-shirt and she pops up on my screen so coiffed! Oh, and her new compter has a 23 inch screen, so I can imagine how I looked to her!

I used to think about something like that when they say one day we will all have telephones like on the Jetson's cartoon, with cameras..you know how the phone always rings when you're in the shower....

I have Mac/Apple computer so we use iChat. My almost 9 mo. old boy/girl twin grandbabies and I get to see and talk to one another a few times a week. I live almost 4 hours from them so this is a wonderful way to see them more often. It's so much fun - we talk, laugh, dance and clap our hands together. I love this technology!! Their daddy's family lives very close to them so they see them way more often than I do.

Linda

I'm reverting (or revolting - in any of it's connotations). I used to chat online using the cameras, etc - many years ago (before I went on the road - so at least 5 1/2 years now). I don't do any of it anymore. I can see how great it would be for those in the service, or with grandkids, etc. But me - like I said, I'm going backwards lol - none if it now. And my current computer has the camera and mic built in - never been used

And, Vickie, yep -

im like that too,, don't want to show how awful I look to anyone.. might scare them! I don't wanna have to 'purty up' to get online to talk to anyone! UG! perhaps it's just me,, but i HATE pictures of myself anyway!

ha!

VickieP wrote:I used to think about something like that when they say one day we will all have telephones like on the Jetson's cartoon, with cameras..you know how the phone always rings when you're in the shower....

I can hear my mother saying "You're not going to talk on the phone looking like that" If we had those phones when I was little, my mother would make us dress up as if company were coming. Lenora, my mother was like your SIL's mother, not a hair out of place. Boy did I get the wrong gene. Linda

I know this is something I wouldn't purchase on my own, but it's already loaded on my computer so thought I'd try it.

I have it on my computer too but haven't tried it yet - maybe we could get a big old Skype conference call going and chat with one another ! That'd be fun !!!

I enjoy skyping when I can find someone on at the same time as me. As Liz said there is a delay but it beats nothing.

Well, I admit, I used to do this when I got paid those really big $$$$'s (yeah right!!), but it is a cheap way to make a phone call when you don't have access to anything other than wi-fi. Like right now I have access to wi-fi, but no cell phone, but I could use a land line. So this would be a good way to contact a fellow skyper...cheap! and you guys know that you can always tape paper over the camera eyeball When I think of delay, I think of talking third party twice on ham radio to the South Pole. That was time delay. . I am looking forward to seeing and talking in to my wrist watch. it tells me the day of the wk, month and day and the time (somewhere) and beeps on the hour...so, I'd like to talk to it and see who I am talking to!