{"id":77,"date":"2011-11-21T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-11-25T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:01:39","slug":"response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/2011\/11\/21\/response\/","title":{"rendered":"[C101] (Response) Facebook’s Video Calling: Will it really be successful?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following entry is a response to Benedicta Chan’s blog post “Facebook + Skype = Video Calling on Facebook Chat”<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook and Skype are partnering up to provide users with free video calling on Facebook Chat. Benedicta Chan, who wrote a blog about the topic, is attracted to the concept and feels that it would be successful because of its convenience for Facebook users.<\/p>\n

While I do agree that it does provide an easier way to video call friends without having to use another application, I am still skeptical about the success of this addition to Facebook. Facebook is a social networking utility, but it is primarily used for communicating with people through commenting and wall posts. Facebook does this well, and I consider it one of its core competencies. The other social networking features Facebook offers are not used as much. I recognize that even Facebook Chat, which has been around for a few years, is not used as a first choice for instant messaging. I myself find it unreliable and users still use instant messaging applications like MSN for a more stable service. Integrating video calling into a web browser may lead to the same effect, where it does offer little \u00a0beyond a novelty. Therefore, I don’t really know if adding video calling to Facebook will enjoy popularity as users may still be loyal to separate and dedicated applications that can perform the function better.<\/p>\n

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Source: Benedicta Chan’s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following entry is a response to Benedicta Chan’s blog post “Facebook + Skype = Video Calling on Facebook Chat”. Facebook and Skype are partnering up to provide users with free video calling on Facebook Chat. Benedicta Chan, who wrote a blog about the topic, is attracted to the concept and feels that it would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angelicacabrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}