Gear Diary Sick in Bed? Its FaceTime to the Rescue! photo

I have the flu. It’s quite inconvenient, especially since we are trying really, really hard to keep Sarah from catching it. As a result, I am staying in a different room on another floor, plus both of us have been armed with Lysol every time we enter a common area.

The real bummer is not being able to hang out together. But this is temporary, and we’re working around it — by using FaceTime! It’s a bit silly, but it makes both of us feel less lonely, and it beats facing each other in a common area and setting off Lysol bombs every five minutes!

I know Apple focuses on people connecting over great distances in their FaceTime ads, but I think cold and flu season gives them a whole new ad angle. We are sold us on how useful FaceTime is!

 

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Carly has been a gadget fiend for a long time, going back to her first PDA (a Palm M100). She quickly went from researching what PDA to buy to following tech news closely and keeping up with the latest and greatest stuff. She loves writing about ebooks because they combine her two favorite activities; reading anything and everything, and talking about fun new tech toys. What could be better?
  • http://www.geardiary.com/ Michael Anderson

    haha … my son and his best friend were FaceTime chatting while also playing co-op XBOX360 … it is an amazingly versatile thing!



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