by Bing Buzby » Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:14 am
I've found facebook to be excellent. Like a lot of people I am bit lazy when it comes to keeping in touch, and facebook sorts that out. Post some pictures of what you have been up to, keep up with what else your friends have been up to (on tour, weddings whatever). All good stuff.
Skype, tend to agree. I find it most use for calling or travelling internationally and of course of most use if the person you are calling is also using Skype. Skype to skype is free and the call quality is far superior to most international telephone lines. If you are calling somebody from skype to their regular phone, you pay the local call rate for that country, which is still better than standard international rates. Skype is also pretty good if you want to phone the UK while travelling abroad, and especially to avoid paying hotel phone rates.
Sometimes you can get a better deal to call phone to phone e.g. I use use Tiscalli to call Australia free, from my regular phone.If most of your calls are local then I would say skype is probably not worth it.
As an aside I tried Skype-In for a while back when it launched and it was flat out useless. It would connect a call at best, 25% of the time. That was a few years back, so it might have improved since then.