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[Liskiller]

Skype launched a $12 million marketing campaign in the U.S. and the U.K., starting with an outdoor push that challenges consumers to think about the quality of their personal communications and introduces the line, "It's time for Skype."

The campaign launched with big display ads that say things such as, "When Did LOL Replace the Sound of Real Laughter?" or "Your One-Way Ticket Back to Humanity." A few even target Twitter and Facebook, such as, "Upgrade from a Wall Post to a First-Class Conversation."

Here are the ads:















It's time for Skype
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[Preath]

Says the one also killing humanity. Technology that replaces every close-contact with other people in real life to long distance is killing humanity. And Skype is not doing it any better.

[ThunderROM]

I thought Skype and Facebook are together, against Google.
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[pataoengineer]

Think back when our grandparents were using telegraph and pagers,

some people probably said like this too.

[Darren 54]

These ads are full of bullshit! Technology is bringing the world together.

[hb860]

Every "chat" thing reduces "humanity". It is obvious

[M.Sudoku]

If there is any harm of using Facebook, then same can be said about Skype.

[SurB86]

Wait a min, so Microsoft bought Skype to compete with the popular social websites?

[hb860]

Nope, they bought users database
Skype has more users than their WLM.