Here's my rant for the day.

I use Skype quite frequently to keep up with friends and family overseas. General I have found that the sound quality and connectivity tends to be better than the phone. Now with the phone, when you call someone it rings, and those at the other end will answer, but for whatever reason several of my friends and or relatives have taken to turning down/off their Skype from ringing. My question is often what is the point of having Skype, or any VOIP for that matter, online when you can't hear to answer it? Yet when I undoubtedly ring several times because their "online" they don't pick up. You might say that they are ignoring me, but I have asked them about it, and my best answer thus far has been, "Because the noise distracts me from playing my video games". This I will have to admit is a good reason, however it is not like Skype makes any other sounds other than when someone is trying to call, so to me this seems to negate this reason. Eventually I do get through but only when they happen to be sitting at their computer. Problem solved... and 8 hours later.

So to people with any kind of VOIP service... keep your volume turned up, we want to talk to you!