My friends are doing Zoom cocktail hours! I'd never heard of Zoom until a few days ago.
Zoom and other conference software is becoming more known because of this.
People have traditionally used things like facetime, skype etc. Unfortunately those all require people signing up for accounts.
I found this service though a software development team I was involved with.
No signup required. Works on multiple platforms. Phones and tablets require a free app. Computers can simply use a browser.
You can video chat, audio chat, typing chat, or even dial into the call with a landline phone for audio only.
All you do is go to the page….. type a name for your "conference".. and click go.
Join a WebRTC video conference powered by the Jitsi Videobridge
meet.jit.si
I plan on using this for a couple group meets.
For example…. We had season tickets to the local theatre, which is going to stream the last show of the season.
So we are going to try get everyone online with "jitsi" and watch it together. My fun idea is to have laptops shooting sideways so that we can look over and see each other in our " theatre seats". hehe
They shouldn't be calling it social distancing. It's should be physical distancing.
Tell that to the introverts.
My fave quote in that regard is..
"Introverts are looking forward to when this is all over, so that extroverts will go back outside and leave them alone"