Video conferencing is all the rage these days.  In the before times, no one really cared that you could video call your friend whenever you wanted to, but now it is becoming an essential tool to stay connected with friends and families.  With this new trend of using video conferencing, there are sure to be a few slip ups and faux pas that one might not think of when using the services.  For instance, it's not uncommon for someone to jump into the call and have a ton of background noise going on in their surrounding, which causes everyone else on the call to start a feedback loop because no one really understands that you have to have earbuds in so your mic doesn't pickup the incoming audio and feed it back into the loop.  Then sometimes you'll get into a call and be chatting and all of a sudden your teammate on the other end (@ml002) will get up and completely forget that they weren't wearing any pants on that particular day, so you end up getting a good eyeful.  In general, the team is pretty young and understands the technology well, but communicating with your parents all the way in Russia is pretty difficult.  They don't realize they shouldn't just call at any time of the day.  Where before with regular calls people were able to understand boundaries, but now with video call, it seems those have gone out the window.

The other day I was doing my morning workout when my parents decided to video call. So I answered to see what they wanted.  Well they made the call, put the device down and then forgot they had called.  So it was just a stream of them watching TV.  I tried getting their attention but they couldn't hear me.  I thought it was pretty funny so I left it on for a while.  I guess it was good to see them.  Then in the middle of that, @Carpy48 gave me a call so I answered that.  He just wanted to chat about his morning coffee and he was still drunk from the night before.  So, you know, it's interesting times for sure.