You think you are too old to Skype?

I would love to see the stats on how many hours a farmer spends on his or her mobile phone...and it can be a relatively expensive form of communication when there are alternatives that are free.

Skype connects folk. Quite simply Skype allows users to make telephone calls from their computer to other Skype users free of charge wherever you are in the World.

Are you too really too old to Skype?

Roy in our village is using skype to contact his son in Canada.

Roy had never used a computer and within a couple of weeks of attending our local community access point (aptly named COWPATS) he was skyping happily.
Roy is 80 something.

I was chatting away today in my hotel room when my Skype went off. It was Monty - my 10 year old son checking up on me. I said "WOW Monty, how did you manage to Skype me when Daddy isn't there - you've never used it before..."
His reply:
"Mum (big sigh...) Daddy told me to press the green button - so I did!"

Comments

[Monty Gorringe]

I love skype because it's free and it is fun to use

[Valerie Gorringe]

Monty said skype is very good love Granny

[Simon Sherlock]

Do you have a webcam? We use Skype and a web cam for contacting my wifes family who or are scattered about quite a bit (one brother in Oz, one in Hong Kong, sister in Brighton and so on.

By using Skype and a webcam we see and talk to them so much more now than when they lived closer. The picture is usually about VHS quality and you already know how good the speech is. Mac laptops have them built in don't they?

[Heather Gorringe]

Thanks Simon
I do have a webcam and am going to try a short videoblog. I dont think Farmer Phil and Monty have a webcam - do you boys? Should have got a mac me thinks....

[Simon Sherlock]

For a PC anything Logitech that's a reasonable price (£30 ish) are of good quality. Forget anything from Tesco and the like for a tenner as picture quality is dire.