Re: skype

From	Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: skype
Date	2020-06-27 18:29 +1000
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On 27/6/20 1:01 pm, Clocky wrote:
> On 25/06/2020 5:21 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> Clocky <nopenotgonn@happen.com> wrote:
>>> On 25/06/2020 10:02 am, keithr0 wrote:
>>>> On 6/25/2020 12:34 AM, Xeno wrote:
>>>>> On 24/6/20 11:37 pm, Max wrote:
>>>>>> What do you use instead of Skype?
>>>>>>
>>>>> If they are on Facebook, then Facebook Messenger. If they own an
>>>>> iPhone, then Facetime. If neither, I use messages or other text forms.
>>>>>
>>>> Messenger is OK if you sell your soul to Facebook, Facetime is OK if 
>>>> you
>>>> are an Apple fanboi, Skype works with almost anything.
>>>
>>> Which is why it's still widely used.
>>
>>    What is 'Messenger', 'Facebook', 'Facetime' and 'Apple'!? :-)
>>
> 
> I was told "you have to get Duo so we can talk" just recently. 
> Ironically it was during a phone conversation.

I get the same but it is *Line*??? that they are talking about. Tried it 
once, it tried to take over my phone, deleted it and have been happy 
with my phone ever since.
> 
>>    And yes, I occasionaly use Skype. Works fine and works on nearly every
>> platform.
>>
> 
> Yes same, very rarely do but it's the only one I do occasionally use.

I had it set up on a computer ages ago but all the people I had on my 
rather long list have long since forsaken Skype and moved on to other 
systems. I don't know anyone who still uses it.

-- 

Xeno


Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
       (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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