Video Chat: for Men Only?


All over the internet, for this holiday season, websites are extolling the great benefits of video chat. You can see and chat with business associates and family. You can transform your world into a virtual studio! Video conferences are the hottest thing since sliced bread.

Let me say a few things about video chat from a woman’s point of view. I would love to see statistics on how many men use video chat compared to women. I’ll bet you ten bucks it is more men than women that utilize this blossoming software.

Any women reading this most surely realize my profound reasons as to why us girls are not totally onboard with video chat. But just for grins, and for the benefit of the men folk, I will discuss here why I am not jumping on the video chat boat.

 

Business Casual + Video Chat = NO WAY

I usually work from my home office. “Business casual” has a whole different meaning when you work from home. Business casual usually means a break from the ties for men and some companies are even brazen enough to let you wear jeans. Not so when you work from home.

video chatBusiness casual, for me working at home, means you can usually find me in front of my computer with old sweats or my favorite flannel pants and an old sweatshirt on. I’ve saved enough money to buy half of Google with the money I’ve saved on dry-cleaning. By the way, you will not really find me at home in this outfit because I will not be answering the doorbell.

 

No Make-up + Video Chat = GO AWAY

Make-up…not happening when I’m home with my dogs. They don’t seem to video chat lipstickmind. I’m not putting it on just so I can video chat. I know some of you women out there venture out sans make-up but that is far too frightening a thought for me to even imagine. Might be a little scary for the world too. My before and after pictures are quite amazing, if I say so myself.

 

Video Chat at the Office

Even when I venture into the office I don’t think I would use it as often as the men there. I can see it now. The video phone rings and first I have to check my lipstick. By the time that task is over I most certainly would have missed the call.

 

Give me that Old Time Communication

I’ll stick with the regular old phone any day. As a matter of fact, just email or IM would work great for me. I can email in my favorite Cardinal shirt. I can instant message with my hair in a tumbled mess. I cannot picture myself using video chat on any type of regular basis.

Video chat has been around for quite some time now. Many new softwares will be implemented during the holiday season. They truly are an amazing creation by the techy gurus. But I bet they weren’t women!

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