With Skype, I can now talk to myself. and mom.
Yesterday evening I was cheerfully chatting with a friend, arranging meeting-up.
- Friend : blah blah blah;
- Georgia: blah blah blah;
… when I saw my self posting a thing I couldn’t recognise having thought of. Neither remembering having thought in a previous conversation. chilllll.
- Friend : are you nuts? why are you saying this?
-Georgia : (confused) ehhh, because it must have been this or that or the other thing.
-Georgia : but I am telling you that the place has changed blah blah blah
Ecstatic I was watching myself from a certain distance. crazy uh? It happens a lot to push back thoughts but it was the first time I experienced doing it at real time. It felt like dreaming !
As tech-savvy TIE readers you realize that this is actually a particularity that this this lovely peer-to-peer program has and lets your profile being simultaneously active with different IPs. All it takes to experience this chilling story is having logged in from a different pc. (DIY)
So what’s the blog deal?
Well, it had never occured to me to experience how older people might feel with technology, sometimes. Understand in theory yes, but live it never.
There it goes, now I can discuss with myself on skype and with mom in real life.
no comments please, I am moved.
Tags: communication breakdown, mammas and pappas, skype
Friends, Internet, Networks, Telecommunications, Uncategorized, VoIP, media
Your insanely spontaneous post aside, it is a great feature to have the ability to use the same Skype username on multiple PCs at the same time. Just imagine the startup or SME, which uniquely communicates via Skype, using the same username. I often call remote countries, using my boss's Skype name, logged in as invisible, while he also uses it (though not, I think at the same time).
It's also very annoying to get MSN messenger et al telling that you can't log in, because you're logged into a different computer, or to have that other computer be logged out when you log in. Multi-Skype: bring it on!
I think the latest version of MSN… sorry, Live Messenger allows for multiple logins. Anyway, that's a bit irrelevant these days.
Multiple logins are good, but they way the work vary. I think Live messenger just broadcasts all messages to all logged in clients, where as Google Talk/XMPP clients send initial message to all or to the one with the highest priority. I've no idea how Skype works in this regard, though.
Skype broadcasts the same message across different computers. Did you not read G.'s post at all?
Skype broadcasts the same message across different computers. Did you not
read G.'s post at all?
Damn flu. Can't comprehend a thing.
Is posting that twice some kind of a meta-joke? =)
It is now. When I originally replied, I did so via mail, and when the update wasn't instantaneous, I also replied here.
You see ? It is confusing even on asychronous mode…
Imagine a chat-meeting through this “facility”, who? said what? when? basta! Give me a workgroup, structure this a bit (Company, business unit,…) and I'll be happy.
Not to step into compliance issues because we will be freaking out even more than I did.
Guys, please the whole point was “Help the Aged” but I guess I shall have Jarvis Cocker to convince you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMN_gOBmthM , or another post