Webcams

Good evening all! I hope we are all well.
Tonight I am going to be discussing the fantastic invention that is the webcam. We all use them, and I personally find them brilliant. I first heard of a webcam when I signed up for an MSN account in about 2004, at the young age of 13. I didn't myself have one, but I really wanted one. My friends had them, and when I went to my best friend's house for sleepovers I didn't want to watch films and chat, I wanted to go on MSN and use her webcam. When I finally had had enough of not having webcam, I realised I could change the connection settings on the family digital camera to make it into a webcam - screw it into a tripod and Bob's your uncle, a fully working webcam. Although what I used it for most was when friends came round and we took photos on it - so I should have just used the camera for that really. Although I got some really funny photos on it > this one for example! We don't really remember what actually happened in this photograph, just good click timing from Amy Osland we think!

However funny that photo may be, nothing will ever top the might night Lydia Fernandes and I had. I can only find one photo from that night, I had to venture onto my unused bebo page to get it, but here it is, in all its glory: How beautiful is that! We had drawn on each other with eyeliner, shoved on some kind of bobbley ears and pretended to kiss. The joys of being 15! But the photos did not stop there, ohh no. We took about 150 photos on webcam that night, just completely messing around. Being 15 year olds! And as time went on, we grew older, but not more mature. The photos kept on coming, and we kept on being sillier and sillier. But then one day, a digital camera was introduced, and the webcam seemingly forgotten ...

I love webcams. I love going on webcam with my brother and seeing my cat and mum at the same time. I love how our computer at home is rather old so John needs to wear a headset to talk to me and hear me, and the webcam is so poor that I can hardly see him anyway. But I just LOVE webcams!

And even though the age of taking photos on webcam seems to have passed, Emma Jones and I took around 200 webcam photos in September before we came to uni, and every single one was Facebook worthy. You can just totally mess around on webcam and it's just expected - no-one judges you, you can pull any kind of face and its fine, because it's webcam. Here is one of my favourite photos of Emma and I from that day:
I just LOVE it.

I have recently rediscovered my webcam. And when I say recently, I mean in the last 2 days. And in the last 2 days, after rediscovering my webcam, I have taken 44 photos on it, one of which is in yesterday's blog (Laughter). All of me. See, that's another thing about webcams. They allow you to be totally vain. I may never publish those photos to the internet, but I like them and I will show all my friends when they come over. It also helps that I have a crystal eye webcam which is pretty much airbrushing my skin whenever it looks at me. I generally like this, but the only problem is that I have some little freckles on my cheeks and nose that I quite like and these aren't on the webcam, sad times. But overall, j'aime les photographs.

I suppose I've got to put a downer on this at some point. Some people abuse the webcam, by being naked on it, or using it in a seductive way. I think webcams are friendly things, and although I know the majority use it for more than just friendly stuff, it is clear that people abuse the original use the webcam had. This is sad times, but only to be expected.

Well I'm off now.

Love and peace to all,

kj226 xx