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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on April 15, 2020, 08:40:44 PM

Title: "Zoom"
Post by: CLKD on April 15, 2020, 08:40:44 PM

was an iced lolly in my day  ;D but I have been into the kitchen to find DH chatting with 4 friends - each 1 has a box with their photos in, down the R side of his screen and they all waved at me  :o  :D ...........

Anyone else use this regularly?

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: Taz2 on April 15, 2020, 08:58:21 PM

We've used it as a family recently to keep in touch but my sons all use it at work for meetings etc.

Taz x

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: Two hoots on April 15, 2020, 09:34:19 PM

Only once, chaos everyone speaking at once  :madeyes: prefer Skype

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: Salad on April 15, 2020, 10:36:11 PM

I've been using Zoom to keep in contact with a couple of groups of friends.
Tonight was quiz night with one lot and tomorrow is bingo with another lot. The bingo winnings are being donated to the NHS.
I'm starting to prefer it to actually going out to meet them - nothing better than sitting in your jarmies  :D

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: Salad on April 16, 2020, 08:31:16 AM

Quote from: stellajane on April 16, 2020, 07:18:41 AM

Yeah my son uses it daily for conference calls.  A couple of times I've walked in to take him a cup of coffee and they've all waved to me -  ;D

Reminds me when webcams were all the rage and my husband walked into my daughter's room wearing just his underpants as she was chatting to a friend - she squealed and he laughed  ;D

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: CLKD on April 16, 2020, 08:35:35 AM

 ;D

 :thankyou:

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: Tc on April 16, 2020, 09:08:31 AM

Yes. We used it a couple of weeks ago. The boxes with us all in reminded me of the opening of "the Brady bunch".

I've now heard Google duo is better. My friend said she had 18 people on there at once.

Xxx

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: CLKD on April 16, 2020, 11:19:19 AM

There was a charge after 30 mins free but I believe that has been dropped in order to allow people to remain connected.  DH was on for nearly 2 hours last night ........... I think he 'down loaded' something  :-\

Title: Re: "Zoom"
Post by: Katejo on April 16, 2020, 03:43:40 PM

Quote from: Teresa on April 15, 2020, 10:27:45 PM

Is there a charge for that? My daughter seemed to think there was.I facetime but it uses up a lot of my phone data as I don't have Wi-Fi.

Only a charge if your meetings are longer than a certain length I think. I have now participated in an online dance class and Italian conversation chat. Only used with Wifi