Since we all retreated to our homes about two weeks ago, we've been connected to one another,

mostly through our screens, work meetings, dinners, catch-ups with old friends, classes,

religious ceremonies, weddings, funerals. They're all taking place in one place.

We have been doing a lot of virtual happy hours with our friends over Zoom. Good morning.

Good morning.

Last weekend, we did a bar mitzvah almost entirely online.

They had a digital wedding.

Friends and family logged on to the conference app Zoom, including Tony's mom.

A piece of software that until recently was mostly used for business to business conversations,

Zoom has taken over our lives.

And why not?

It works seamlessly.

And for most users, it's free, which is one of the

more attractive price points. But as Joseph Cox recently reported on the new site motherboard,

there is no free lunch and there is no free lunch meeting. Joseph, welcome to the media.

Thanks for having me. So Zoom has become

the default meeting place of the world. There are a lot of virtual conference apps. What's so

special about this one? It has exploded in use, mostly because it's reliable. It can

handle shoddy connections.

It can also facilitate meetings of a quite large size.

So if you want to catch up with friends, you're able to do that.

And of course, it is free as well. So it's plateaued from a just a video conferencing piece of software right up to a de facto

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