{"id":1517,"date":"2012-09-19T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bernatriera.es\/about-whatsapps-skypes-wechats\/"},"modified":"2015-03-15T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T17:12:53","slug":"about-whatsapps-skypes-wechats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernatriera.es\/en\/about-whatsapps-skypes-wechats\/","title":{"rendered":"About Whatsapps, Skypes & WeChats"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to analyze the current social networks<\/strong>, in which I am totally immersed, and scared at the same time, because the rest goes also submerged.<\/p>\n

In my case, since I live in England, social networks have been the most effective way to keep in touch with mine in real time<\/strong>. Like many of you reading this, Whatsapp<\/a> has totally changed the way we communicate, leaving even facebook<\/a> chat, which already \u00a0left behind to msn messenger one day. And this \u00a0crossed-platform application allows immediate and free conversation with anyone in the world, and even better, with a group of people at once, being able to exchange messages, audio, your exact position on the map, photos and videos.<\/p>\n

Also, and although this title mentioned Skype, I wanted to introduce Apple’s “Facetime<\/strong>“, for those who don’t know, it’s just what Skype always wanted to be<\/strong>. A perfect real time video call, free, no delays or cuts and through any of the Apple devices. This makes you to have that person virtually, but nothing similar to a phone call, because a smile, expression or tear can make the difference to everything said or written. I wonder how far will go this “virtual presence” in the future?<\/p>\n

BUT<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

This hyper communication is –paradoxically<\/strong>– leading\u00a0 us \u00a0to a slow and premeditated communication<\/strong>? The written conversations, unlike spoken, have a much longer response time, allowing us to analyze, think, respond, correct and finally send them. We lose spontaneity, the essence and not less important one, the error.<\/p>\n

And every how many minutes do you look at your phone? I read an article of “El Pais<\/a>“, where even the mobile usage was compared with any other addiction<\/strong>, because it causes similar reactions of happiness when you receive text messages, whatsapps, emails, facebook or others. And a similar reaction of sadness when we look at the phone and we have no notice.<\/p>\n

Myself, when I was in Mallorca without permanent internet connection with my English phone, I realized two things. <\/strong>The first,\u00a0I was trying to connect via WIFI when I had the chance to get all “what I was missing” during my holidays … as emails, (funny!) … And second, I realized again of the productive, fast and effective that phone calls to communicate with people are.<\/p>\n

NEXT?:<\/strong><\/p>\n

And I present what is probably the next one to appear in our lives, if Whatsapp not braked. The WeChat<\/a>. Very popular already in China and it will spread in the rest of the world. Below I detail some features, which as you will see, collects the best of each house with some social innovations:<\/p>\n