Skype Love! For free or almost free!
Skype the Internet Phone service seems to have done more than letting people talk free or at lower cost.
Skype seems to have brought many a couples together and ended up in marriages, Alana Semuels reports. Mark Passerby and Salwa Al-Saban were separated by the Atlantic Ocean, a time difference of seven hours and vast cultural contrasts. He lived in Lansing, Mich., she in Egypt's capital, Cairo.They say they fell in love over Skype, a service that allows users to call each other free over the Internet. In November 2005, a month after they first "clicked" online, they married.
The software routes phone calls over the Internet, substituting voice for instant messages. Web mail services such as Google, MSN and Yahoo also allow customers to make Net phone calls.
Since it was founded in 2003, Skype has added voice mail and video communication. The service says it has more than 100 million users. At first, Skype was used mostly by people who already knew each other: spouses on business trips, camp friends and college students. Then specialized dating Web sites discovered Skype, and its role as a matchmaker started growing.
On most online dating sites, singles send messages to one another, but "it takes an awful long time for them to find out if they're compatible," said David Finlay, the co-owner of SomeoneNew.com, a 14,000-member dating site. Finlay says that by using Skype, people on his Web site are able to determine whether they're compatible after one or two phone calls.
Skype has spawned love connections between Belgians and Japanese, Germans and Israelis, Americans and Egyptians and even a Guatemalan nail technician and a Canadian.
But not all are that happy;
Some psychologists say a relationship created and sustained by Net phone can be incomplete. Net phone contact is "simultaneously allowing people to become more intimate and yet have less patience with real life and real-time human fumbles and foibles," said Linda Young, a psychologist at Seattle University who has counseled many students who have sustained or developed relationships over Skype.
I thank all these users that make love happen over the phone, and keep those super nodes up, so we all can make skype calls. May be after getting married or breaking up, they can remove skype!
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