It's amazing the amount of things that travel restrictions have had such an impact on that they've completely overturned our old habits. Communication is now online for at least 80% of its content, home working has become a solid reality, and more! Reunions between friends, meetings between couples, all this has been moved to the digital plane with unprecedented speed.
Together2night.com conducted an audit in 2020 and published the statistics, the number of visits to the site in 1 year has grown by more than half, it's a remarkable growth rate if you consider that we are talking about a sector, online dating, already in constant growth for several years, the quarantine in this case has approached the sector even people who before were reluctant to the idea of ferrying online part of their love life.
Call Me App Again
Until 2020, few people worked on a remote system. How many had ever celebrated their birthday online? We couldn't even imagine that 90% of our time would be spent in communication apps (Skype, zoom, dating sites). Now, however, we can't imagine our lives without a computer (smartphone), the Internet and various apps. Here is a list of the eight best software that have most benefited and accompanied the new trends in 2020:
- WhatsApp Zuckerberg's application knows no rivals, in February 2020 the company released the news that it had already reached 2 billion active users. And you can see that they are active in earnest since in October of the same year they were talking about 100 billion messages delivered per day!
- Houseparty This application born in 2015 aims to allow groups of friends to meet in video conferences with up to 8 people, the application contains within itself group games such as Uno or Magic 8-Ball. The application that seems made especially for a quarantine situation, had been quite successful with timid but steady growth rates until 2020, the year in which it even won a Webby Awards for "most explosive application of the year".
- Viber Viber is an app for making phone calls and sending text messages completely free of charge. Unlike WhatsApp it allows you to make phone calls with this technology to any mobile number even if it does not have Viber installed.
- Slack Slack is a brilliant application designed with the objective of serving as a functional platform on which to base multidisciplinary work projects. The application is used to keep in touch the different professionals and keep track of the work done. Born in 2013, it was sold to Saleforce in December 2020 for the exorbitant sum of almost 30 billion dollars.
- Microsoft Teams A direct competitor to Slack, this communications platform from Microsoft has direct integration with all office software and the Windows ecosystem on its side. However, as Microsoft's history shows, this advantage is not enough to make all of this company's products dominant over the competition.
- Skype Remaining in the Microsoft house we can not fail to mention Skype, the messaging application par excellence, which during this pandemic has accompanied the evenings of millions of people around the globe.
- Telegram Pável Dúrov is a Russian boy trained in the compulsory school in Turin, Italy, who in 2010 once back in his homeland was already CEO of the largest Russian social network. Unfortunately, he came into collision with the Soviet regime for his non-cooperation in surrendering data of dissidents, lost control of his creature and emigrated from his country never to return. In 2013, he founded Telegram. The application is currently considered among the most secure in the world and is benefiting greatly not only from the global quarantine but also from the recent decline in the image of its direct competitor WhatsApp, which with the update of early 2021 began to share with Facebook all the address book of users who installed it, thus triggering controversy and boycotts worldwide.
- Zoom How not to mention this application? Despite being founded back in 2011, being listed on the stock exchange since March 2019 and already having double-digit growth rates for quite some time, Zoom has really entered our homes depending on the suspension of preschool classes, benefiting incredibly from that situation. What all these apps have in common is that they have helped billions of people stay connected despite limitations. They are the reason we made it! Their existence is what distinguishes our era from previous ones. Indeed, this is not the first outbreak, yet it is the first time we have used the weapon of quarantine.
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