My family is now connected with webcams. Our house has had a webcam for awhile now. I bought one for the parents for their anniversary and I bought one for my sister and her family for early birthday presents.
My parents and I have been using ours since I bought it (the beginning of January). Finally my sister Tracey hooked hers up. Then my sister Adrienne went and bought one for herself.
We used Skype, but that only lets you video conference with one other person. Adrienne told us of Oovoo. Oovoo allows you to video conference up to at least 5 people (I think anyways).
Today we all got to see each other, it was really cool. The CA boys showed off and made faces, dad was told just to sit and talk, not to touch anything, Adrienne and I were "IMing" each other "off camera," and I sat there listening to everyone else. My camera is a little old and I think I might upgrade soon.
The two sites: www.skype.com & www.oovoo.com
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