If it is that when it gives us something … Video calls or videoconferences are a very useful tool that gives us benefits that we all know. Among others, it facilitates collaborative work between geographically distant people. Whether in the professional, educational or personal and family spheres, video calls have become essential. They bring us closer to each other and remove the physical barriers that separate us. That’s cool. But that the fateful year 2020 has come to show us… That’s enough for us.
This audio and video communication technology began to develop around the time of the invention of the television. This I have had to look up in Wikipedia, yes. In any case, let’s not go too far. The first memory I have of this type of communication takes me back to the 2000s, when to make a video call you had to buy a webcam because your computer monitor did not have it built in, when to connect to the internet you had to shout from the room “Mom, can you talk to my aunt later on the phone? I’m going to connect to the internet,” and when an application started playing that millenials as I now remember with nostalgia: “the Messenger”. There your friends were waiting for you with nicks world’s most creative: DiAbLiTa89 and Se-MaQuiNavaJa. There was also iChat, which was wonderful but only available on Mac computers. Didn’t you have a Mac? Oh my, sorry. Note that condescending air that characterizes us Apple users. I am not so. I respect that you can have the device that you want. It would be more. But Apple is God. I’m not going to tell you the whole story of video conferencing. So by turbocharging this imaginary timeline we found the appearance of more and more solutions as Internet connections improved and the smartphone. Some examples? Skype (the classic of classics), Hangouts, FaceTime, or one of the most popular today: Zoom, who went from having 10 million active users in 2019 to more than 300 at the end of April 2020. OMG. And the coronavirus, confinement and teleworking arrived. The definitive trigger for this latest application (Zoom) to have a market value of almost 50 billion dollars. But how many zeros does that figure have! I dont know. Many. So much of our day to day has begun to fill up with video calls: with our boss, with our co-workers, with our mothers, with clients… I have had an average of 5 video calls a day. In most cases its use is justified. But, do you really have to set up a videoconference even to say good morning? If the mike doesn’t go, if I don’t see you, are you there? A call without video, the kind of quick and concise. That is blessed glory. That is what I want in my life. Leave me alone. Qué tirria (“ritia” in the case of Christofer de la Island of temptations) I’m catching him. If it is that when he gives us for something …
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