Skype.

Hey there!

Before I start my blog I want you to know that I am not sponsored by Skype or anything. I just really like using Skype and wanted to share some of my thoughts about it with you. 

So back to the point. Skype. Skype, for the people unfamiliar with it, is this program to which you can connect to via your phone number, your Hotmail account and by simply making a Skype account. The program itself allows you to add your friends and either text chat or video chat with them. If you want you can even do both at the same time. Besides this one to one function there you can also chat with a bunch of your friends in a group chat. 

DO NOT take those group chat things lightly though! Before you have a functional chat with more than one friend at the same time some years might have passed. It's a mess, honestly. You can kind of compare Skype to MSN, the chat program that died a couple of years ago and was just the best thing in existence. 

There you have it, Skype in a nutshell. Now onto the real talk.

Well, I absolutely love Skype and I think it is super underrated. As in nowadays society we spend most of our time behind a computer screen or on our phone. Even for socialising with friends apps and programs for communicating have become a must. Decide for yourself but when you come to think about it it's nearly impossible nowadays to not use an app or program for communicating on one of your technological devices. Whether it's pictochat on your old NintendoDS, whatsapp, Facebook messenger, kik, ping, twitter, Skype or whatever other apps there are out there. You use at least one of them, don't deny it. Besides all these "new" apps for chatting, you can still use the "old school" call to communicate with others. This however gets done less and less at least that's how I experience it. 

For me personally the "old school" making a call has always been a great issue. As someone who isn't really good at communicating, has some troubles with understanding how people meant something they said and hates the unpredictability of the things the other person says during the phone call leaving me not knowing how to reply, making a phone call has always send my anxiety levels to the emergency setting. For me these chat apps have been great as they don't require verbal contact and you can take as long as you want come up with a decent reply or ask others for reply suggestions. 

The only thing that I don't like about these chat apps is the fact that when you have a lot to tell someone it can get pretty annoying to have to type something that looks like an essay and press send only to wait for half an hour for the other person to read it and write a decent reply. 
The reason above is basically the only reason I call people sometimes, like not too long ago my stress levels were reaching a new high and I just really needed to talk to someone so I rang a friend of mine. We ended up chatting on the phone for about an hour and it was one of the first phone calls that didn't give me anxiety just by thinking about ringing someone. It was great.

But Renée how does this relate to Skype. Well I must admit I got off topic really quickly and this entire post became one big mess but hey lets continue anyway. 

So as I mentioned before on Skype you can either just ring someone without the video thingy. Just talking to each other. As Skype does require an internet connection to make any calls I recommend you connect to a wifi network to use it btw. But once you use it whilst connected to wifi you will avoid that high phone bill you will get by simply ringing your friend the old fashioned way. So that is great. On another note Skype is pretty similar to the old MSN so it gives you a certain feeling of nostalgia when using it which I personally really like considering I still miss MSN a lot up to this day. *sniff sniff* 

So you can make a sort of old school call using Skype but you can also use it to simply chat by typing whatever you want and you can video chat one or multiple friends at a time. I love the video chatting function as some of my friends live further away and I can't meet them very easily so Skype is a great way to still see each other sort of irl. The video chatting function, for me, also takes away a lot of stress as you can now see the person who you're talking to which makes the interpreting of the things they say a lot easier. 

Yes, I really like Skype and I love using it to communicate with my friends to catch up or just share our latest adventures or dreams with one another. The only thing with Skype is that in my social network it is still really underrated. Some of my friends that live pretty close to me have Skype and use it sometimes but most of them either don't have Skype or don't use it which I find such a shame. Skype can get rid of so many misunderstandings coming from typed messages. Besides when using the video chat function you actually have an excuse for not leaving your room as you are still socialising with your friends and you don't even have to leave the house to do so! 

That's all I have for you this week. Sorry for my bad uploading schedule recently, the main reason is the start of my new internship and it's just been crazy busy with all the irregular shifts of a nurse life and stuff.

Anyways, thank you for spending some of your precious time to stop by and read my blog / rant about Skype. If you don't mind spending some more of your time please subscribe to my blog by putting your email address in the Follow by Email section on your left or share your opinion on Skype and other communicating apps in the comments!

Love you lots,
ThatDutchGirl96