Internet is being utilized at vast amounts these days. There are various reasons of using internet such as receiving information, entertainment, gaming, education and training, and of course, to communicate with another person in a different part of the globe. Lately, communication has been the most used across the globe. It can be in the form of email, live chat to clarify your doubts about an organization, through social media apps such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter etc. They provide means to send and receive messages through different means such as images, text, videos and audio. It also provides an option of using the mobile data to call and have a conversation. Communication can be either formal or informal. Google hangouts is another communication app for formal communications to take place which includes, professional video conferences, chat and much more. For all of this, there are many technologies to manage these. At present, social media is gaining a lot of importance and is used for business purposes as well.
Here are a few benefits of internet communication:
- Makes communication easier- we all know how difficult it is to manage an organization when it has different branches and subordinates and requires constant communication to keep track of work done and monitor the status of their day-to-day goals. To make this easier, communication via the internet was introduced which enabled the organizations to establish and secure their data as well as keep it professional and confidential.
- Enhances collaboration- one good advantage of communication over internet is that we get to see group discussions and analyze and take better decisions. This helps in the organization’s collaboration. This increases work relationships.
- Cost effective: instead of spending on post letters, stamps, travelling charges, etc. you get to send the message to the intended person instantly without any additional cost.
- Increases accountability.
Here are top communications over the internet:
- Instant messaging– this is an on-demand way of communications and is said to be the easiest way of communication. This is regarded to be one of the fastest growing forms of internet communications. The reason behind this is due to the fact that it enables private as well as public communications. You can have a one to one communication or a group discussion as a conference as well. Another advantage to this approach is the speed of delivery. When there is an important message to communicate to the group, it will be delivered to everyone at once at that second.
- Internet telephony and VoIP– it is a combination of both software and hardware. This helps to create a transmission medium for audio and video calls. Recently developments have been made to improve the efficiency and accuracy of this communication by eliminating the lag in the audio and video during a video conference. Attention is given to the clarity of the image in the video by using many advanced techniques.
- Email– this kind of communication is used for many years. It provides the most confidential means of sending and receiving messages, providing the most professional structure of the message. This is mostly used for organizational work.
- IRC– stands for Internet Relay Chat. This is a kind of messenger that helps to gather a group of people from different channels and chat in a group or privately. This is done by the use of client server model. IRC consists of servers that make it possible to broadcast all the messages to its specific destinations.
- Video conferencing– it’s a conference between two or more people using a room which is used to communicate virtually with a video call as if you were talking face to face. All you need for this is apps like Skype, a web camera and a microphone with internet. This freeware has been utilized by a lot of adult dating platforms including free fuck buddy sites and other dating sites like adultfriendfinder.
As you can see, all of these are wireless. You need not connect large wires to connect from the source to the destination. That would just increase the hardware, making the entire system more complex. For this reason, many messenger apps have been introduced. They are usually available as messenger freeware.
Different messenger freeware available worldwide are as follows.
- Facebook Messenger– this app is available for download in your respective operating stores. It has over a billion users at present. As the name suggests, it is a product of Facebook. This can be used by the users having Facebook account and can be used by people over their smartphones by logging in.
- Whatsapp Messenger– this is yet another most popular messaging app available all over the world. This also has over 1 billion users. Whatsapp is available in your respective operating stores and can be downloaded and installed. After installation, you will be required to provide your mobile number to register. It has gained a lot of importance due to its enhanced features.
- Discord– it is a messenger freeware that was introduced in the year 2015. It is a VoIP application designed by a game developing community who are specialized in audio and video communication over IP in a chat channel. It runs on all kinds of platforms such as windows, MAC, Android, iOS, Linux and in web browsers. According to a survey conducted, over 250 million users are using this software. It uses IRC technology, which was discussed previously. It uses another concept called digital distribution. It uses servers to distribute and broadcast messages. Some of such 7 most popular verified servers are: Fortnite, SpellBreak, PUBG mobile, Clash Royale, ZombsRoyale, Rainbow 6 and Minecraft.
- Skype– it is a telecommunication application that also employs VoIP concept. It is specifically used for video calls supported by different users from different parts of the globe. It is the most popular video conference application that can be used with the help of computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones and many more such devices. It was introduced in the year 2003. Skype originally was built as an IRC as well as peer-to-peer model. Now, however, Microsoft redesigned and made it completely peer-to-peer. It can be used in different platforms like Windows, iOS, and Linux systems.