Edit(Jun 19, 2021): This post has been heavily edited since the original version was written. In the original version I went off on a tangent that didn't make sense.
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Ever since the pandemic started, everyone wants to zoom. Can we do a zoom interview call? Can we do a zoom meeting? Let's set up a zoom. Let's do a quick zoom. Let's all get on a zoom. Oh, Debbie needs to do a zoom for this quick Excel fix.
Screeew video calls.
It feels like Covid and zoom killed the phone call. Is it really necessary to see me while we talk?
More generally, there are three ways to communicate while working from home: written, voice only and video calls. Some love written communication and hate voice/video. Others can only do voice or video because they can't type.
Communication mechanism is a very important consideration to make when working from home and some people may not be able to work with each other because they prefer to use different communication mechanisms - which is unfortunate.
My prediction is that written communication will be used more and more as more people learn to touch type.
Comment Castlesbefore
Seriously, this. 1000 times this.
Zoom Outted as tool for pedophiles in 2019:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=6190290AAB29EB7C234B00F642FE01FF&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL
Here's an article a year later in the times about a "surge in sexual images of children on the incident" with no mentions of Zoom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/online-child-sexual-abuse.html
And another article that describes the "FBI trying to crackdown on child pornography on Zoom calls" without any of the blame falling on the platform itself. The feds literally found them guilty of distributing child pron a year earlier but they have liability shields so I guess they're allowed to be pedophiles.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-disturbing-number-of-zoom-bombings-include-child-porn-images