I feel like my social life has been reduced to an episode of the Brady Bunch.  Just me and a bunch o squares on Zoom.

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Teams… Slack… Zoom  … no matter the app… it’s all the same a two-dimensional checkerboard of human heads…  sure…  the heads change from meeting to meeting… but the awkwardness stays.  Try singing happy birthday to a co-worker.   We did….

That was not the Tabernacle choir in case you were confused.  — that was bad —

Thankfully… the next generation of group meeting apps is in beta testing.   There’s one called gather.town —  instead of a tik tak toe board….  you’re in a house.  You use the arrow keys to move around… and as you get closer to a person …they get louder and other voices fade.  You can sit on a couch or at a table… and have a private one-on-one… while others do the same thing.   It’s more like being at a party … than that sad …sad … birthday song I just played.

Point is… there’s hope.  developers are working on a bunch of different meeting apps that do away with the checkerboard and make virtual life a little more engaging.

Or irf you’re a Brady Bunch fan… you can always stick with Zoom.

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