"Melody she means to cover the webcam so that the person you are talking to cant see you, if you dont want them to"


Okay, I'm a dumb broad today!!!! Who is she talking to that she covers the webcam with post it notes!!! I don't talk to anyone with my webcam. I just make videos or take pics.

You can talk to people and use the webcam??? Oh, I think I know what you mean!!!!!!. Are you referring to Instant Messaging while you see the other person, or....when you have a microphone and you are talking to the person and you can see them via the webcams???

Now why on earth would you be talking to a person via a webcam and you wouldn't want them to see you!!!! Don't you have to give them your IP number or something like that?

Years ago, when my son had a webcam and we had a webcam, the first time, we used it to see each other, he did the yahoo messenger thing and I got a message on my screen that "Frank has invited you to view his webcam". I clicked on "accept" and there was my son, right in front of my eyes and then we talked via the microphone. Now it was a garbled conversation (this was 5 years ago, and I gather technology has improved right). But I'll tell you, it was the most exciting night of my life. Here we are, 3000 miles apart from each other and there he was, clear as a bell, right on my computer screen.

He no longer has a webcam but I never forgot what it felt like to see him on the computer.

I have friends (who have computers, and their kids have computers too) and they have grandchildren. But the grandparents do not have webcams. And I say "are you crazy, get a webcam for under a hundred bucks and you can "visit with your grandchildren, see them change on a daily basis. It's free because you are on the internet". They just shrug and say "no, I don't know how to hook it up, it's too much of a hassle!!!"

Boy, I'll tell you something. If I were a grandma, I would be seeing those kids all the time. That's how they don't forget their grandmother and grandpa!!! It's a way to reach out and stay in touch. You can make videos, they can make videos of their artwork, of their school work, you can mentor them. Grandparents are very important. I would have made a really cool grandmother, that much I know.

Oh well!!!!

Hi to all of you, and bye for now.
Mel