Will allow people prepared to tell the world about the minutiae of their lives to make. it has jumped on the social notworking bandwagon to hitch its future to that bastion of personal privacy, Facebook. To improve call dependability Skype 5.0 will automatically try to reconnect your call if it drops.īeing hip and trendy is clearly all important to Skype. group video chat feature that allows you to chat with up to nine other people. Notifications such as photo comments or your friends' recent 'likes' didn't show up. In my tests, it appeared that Skype only has limited access to your newsfeed. Skype users worldwide spend an average of 520 million minutes every day using the online voice and video chat service. users spent more than 40 million minutes in August on the social network. Skype in Facebook is obviously a big win for both companies. Facebook has more than 500 million users. Skype has around 560 million registered users. The move is seen as a natural one for the world's biggest social network. The Facebook phonebook in Skype allows users to call and text Facebook friends directly on their mobile phones and landlines. Skype users can keep up-to-date and interact with their Facebook news feed including posting status updates, commenting and liking directly from Skype. The deal comes amid fevered rumours that Facebook plans to launch a phone of its own.

'Mother' Maggie Shiels reports for Aunty Beeb:

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