Grandpa gets Skype

Jordan, your randpa finally got a Skype account.

He didn't go for it for any of the following reasons:

• reliable technology;
• functional interface;
• online storage of contact data;
• ability to make calls and access your address book and call data on any computer;

It was because.........of the price:

• $75.00 a year for a local number voice-mail and unlimited calling throughout the US and Canada.

But now he is getting into it and discovering little gems of features that he never had with his land-line or cellphone. He is a printing broker so he calls on printers and companies that need catalogs all day. Each time he calls a new number he clicks the "Add to Contacts" and the number is in his book which he can access from any computer. He has a desktop and a laptop, but he travels frequently and sometimes the laptop is kind of slow....I showed him the de-crapifier link the last time he was in town. Being able to login to his Skype account and access all of his contacts from any computer in the world...now that he has seen it on his desktop and laptop at home, he understands what I was talking about for the last 2 years.

I'd send him an invite to Grand Central, but that would probably overwhelm him and I would get a guilt trip for getting him to fork out $75 for Skype when Grand Central is free.