MySpace & Skype Are Out To Annoy Me
Just what I need… More phone calls.
News Corp.’s MySpace will offer members of its popular social network free Internet phone calls with a new feature based on eBay Inc.’s Skype service, the companies announced Tuesday.
Users with a Skype account will be able to click a single button in their MySpace profile to call the computer or telephone of another member, so they could reach people in their network even when they’re not online. The service will be available in 20 countries starting in November.
MySpace, the largest social-networking site with 110 million members, will share revenue from the deal with Skype, which allows customers to place long-distance calls using their computers. Skype, the Luxembourg-based division of eBay, has 220 million registered users.
Standard PC-to-PC phone calls will be free, but users must pay for “premium” options such as their own personal phone number, voice mail, call forwarding, and the ability to make calls from a computer to land lines or cell phones.
It’s not like I don’t get enough phone calls as it is. Why would I want everyone on my MySpace account calling me all day? Isn’t the point of MySpace to have an place online to type messages to each other? Heck, I am all for online “community”, I just don’t want people calling me. I have never been a “phone” person.