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[darkoshi]

I still haven't yet used or installed Zoom. However, one of Qiao's nieces is having a Zoom wedding event in a few weeks (they already married a few months ago, but for some reason the virtual event ended up being scheduled for later...), so I'll probably get to try it out then. But I keep thinking "virtual event = I can watch online", forgetting the "Zoom = they can watch me too" part. I guess that means I should dress up a bit, or something? And that maybe it will be a bunch of individual conversations between people I mostly don't know, and it will feel like a real live social event where I just sit quietly listening to people talk? Although with his family, it will probably be a ton of people, so I don't even know how individual conversations could work. Maybe it will be a few people speaking and everyone else listening. I suppose I should get Zoom working on Qiao's laptop, so he can join and I can just look over his shoulder now and then. Hmmm. I wonder if his laptop even has a webcam?

For work, I've still only ever had one video call this last year.

I still haven't tried out any video chat apps on my phone. My mom tried out Google Duo a week or two ago, with her friend. When she'd mentioned wanting to try out a video chat app, I'd almost installed Google Duo on my phone, but upon seeing the permissions page I decided to wait, as I wanted to look into other options first. But really, I don't have any particular urge to video chat with anyone. That's why I don't get around to it.

I used video chat on my computer about 15 years ago, with Qiao on Yahoo Instant Messenger. And with my brother on Facebook once long ago.

Skype used to be a thing. I installed it on my computer to try out, but don't remember ever using it with anyone else. At work, we used Skype, but for texting, not video.

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[darkoshi]

When I watch videos of other people, I rather like seeing what their room looks like in the background. But yes, in that one video chat we had for work, a few people were using fake backgrounds and I wanted to try it out too. But from what I found out later, I didn't have the right version of the MS Teams software for it.