Scype makes me nervous

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I don't like talking face to face over the computer. It still doesn't feel right. At least on a message board I can think of what I want to say, and work on it.

I agree. I never use a camera or a microphone with strangers. And people continue to be strangers until at least a couple of meet ups. Though I don't do them either, unless it's extremely uncomplicated.

I only use skype if I only know the person but I'm more better with voice than I do with video.

I'd rather be here, on WrongPlanet.

I rarely use the call components. You can chat with text through Skype as well, and that is what I do most of the time. To me it's mostly like YIM or AIM or any other IM service, but with abnormally good audio/video chatting functions. xP

I only call people I know usually, and usually only out of necessity, like so my cousin can show me a picture to help him explain something, or so that my friend Jeff and I can keep our hands free to kill monsters in whatever game we're playing online and still communicate with each other, and so on.....

My friend who now lives in Australia wants me to use Skype... I am s-wording myself... plus I can't afford a headset/video producing device at the moment...

Those are like, uhm, extremely cheap. Like three bottles of milk - cheap.

I used to go into chat rooms regularly. I always avoided the voice chat function though. With typing text I could often convince people I was actually normal! Using voice chat, I don't think I ever could.
I've never used Skype either.

I rarely used skype to talk to people in the past but since september i've been a dj on an internet radio station which has really given me confidence when it comes to speaking to strangers.

Im glad Im not the only one. We are setting up a Skype account but its mainly because we are moving to France and I want to see my daughters and talk to them. Still it scares me for some reason....like Im scared someone is going to hack into it or something. Also I could NEVER skype with someone I didnt know...even some people that I knew in school, that would be really uncomfortable. Its like letting someone in your house or something.

J get nervous when i log into Skype, but once the conversation has started I'm fine. However, I never use Skype to talk to strangers.

I find the one thing that still makes me nervous before i go on the radio or skype is that i dont like the sound of my own voice, do any of you find that?

I get nervous around scythes, too. They remind me of death.

Yeah, me too. It sounds weird and whiny I think, but recently I got a really strong and surprising complement. I was told by a random girl on the phone (Her friend made me answer the phone for him because he was driving.) that I had a cute voice, and could be a sex phone operator!


LOL! I thought that too for a moment, actually. xD

Maybe thats a line of work that would suite you

Thanks, but I doubt it. xD It'd take a lot of work to knock out the kinks- err, that's the wrong word. Kinks might be a good thing, lol. No though, I tend to pause awkwardly and stuff when I speak.... Although, with practice, I might really like to be a voice actor. ^_^ It'd be soo fun!