Chatter On The Interwebs

Video chatter that is. (So clever)

I decided to chat a couple of times. My family is rather spread out now with people in Utah, Minnesota, Virgina, Maryland, and Ohio. We still like to keep in contact though. So all of us who are in Utah for school got together to chat with my parents who are all alone in Minnesota. It was wonderful. We have a good time together and even though it wasn't quite like being in the same room with them, the video chat didn't impede us in showing our true personalities. My sister started making faces at the camera, which my father then took screenshots of, which were then photoshopped to make her look like a vampire, which she then got angry at, which we then all laughed at. There weren't any hiccups that we could find in the video chat. Gchat seemed to work out just fine.

However, my brother is currently in a long distance relationship (she moved back to England) and they chat all the time (well at least once a day). They find that Gchat has better sound, but that skype has better video. So they open up two separate chats to use google's audio and skype's video. Even then there are many hiccups and freezes in the images or mike feedback. So while the development of video chat is becoming quite amazing, there is still a lot of progress to be made.