The New York times has an article on the way video chat is reshaping domestic rituals like holiday parties and birth announcements. (Skype video chat averages 300 million minutes per day).
It can also reshape every day life. My wife is Chilean and chats with siblings or her mother in Santiago every day. Here you see her talking with her sister Anita, Note that they use both iPads and Skype while they are talking.
She and Anita often chat twice a day and it can easily be for more than an hour. I doubt that they would see each other that much if they were both living in Santiago.
When my grandparents came to the US from Europe, they knew they would never see the people they were leaving behind again. Times have changed.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Video chat and the family
Posted by Larry Press at Permanent link as of 10:33 AM
Labels: family, implications, skype
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