Skype Me!

Scarlett Wampus · #1 06-12-2006, 04:53 PM

Ok, I finally got broadband for my home connection. I immediately tried Skype and its great. If any of you wanna add me my Skype name is scarlettwampus.

Have any of you tried group discussions and things like that using VoIP? I love the idea!

mr.guy · #2 06-12-2006, 05:04 PM

I started using skype for a bit, but then making more long distance calls with impudence to the cost, i discovered i really didn't have much to say to anyone after all. The chat system works pretty good in contrast to our own here, though (sorry, todd).

michel · #3 06-12-2006, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Scarlett Wampus

Ok, I finally got broadband for my home connection. I immediately tried Skype and its great. If any of you wanna add me my Skype name is scarlettwampus.

Have any of you tried group discussions and things like that using VoIP? I love the idea!

I once spoke to ChrisP and Buttons*; it felt quite extraordinary, even unreal. A conference between New Zealand, Britain and the USA. Wow, how technology has changed the world.

Bishka · #4 06-12-2006, 05:39 PM

Well, I currently have to get a new name, cause I can't remember mine. So Ash, you are going to have to tell me yours again.

My new name for skype is: beckysoup6128

mr.guy · #5 06-12-2006, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by michel

A conference between New Zealand, Britain and the USA.

It's a good thing you're such a skilled linguist, michel. I don't think i'd i've been able to decipher either languages of the lower hemisphere(ish).

Buttercup · #6 06-12-2006, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mr.guy

It's a good thing you're such a skilled linguist, michel. I don't think i'd i've been able to decipher either languages of the lower hemisphere(ish).

NO kiddin...them Texans have one heck of a vernacular. Bring yer Red Neck dictionary.....

Kidding....."stop shooting those bananas at me Ash!"

Buttons* · #7 06-12-2006, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Buttercup

NO kiddin...them Texans have one heck of a vernacular. Bring yer Red Neck dictionary.....

Kidding....."stop shooting those bananas at me Ash!"

... can i still shoot you dirty looks?

.... okay, so it's not dirty....

Scarlett Wampus · #8 06-12-2006, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by michel

I once spoke to ChrisP and Buttons*; it felt quite extraordinary, even unreal. A conference between New Zealand, Britain and the USA. Wow, how technology has changed the world.

Yeah it can be quite a shock. It was even a shock to me to go from the most early and rudimentary of Internet communication, the Bulletin Board System, to online live text chatting.

So far I've mostly talked with people I know personally and a few people I've known online for years and years. In the case of people I've known online a long time its odd because, although I've been in correspondence with them for such a stretch of time, actually talking on the phone is so different to text based communication that it does seem unreal. The only exception is one woman who I'd come to share so much personal stuff with over IM (we used to chat pretty much every day for hours at a time) that we went straight into the old routine as soon as I'd stopped laughing at her sqeaky minnie-mouse voice with its deep southern American accent. With others I'm finding that it doesn't take long for a net persona and a phone persona to gell together though.

mr.guy · #9 06-12-2006, 10:19 PM

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.. can i still shoot you dirty looks?

Kann as 'till shout 'chu darty louks?

Texan enough?

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