Billions of Skype users were confused over the last few days why this god damn app didn’t work. Some friendships fell off, other people re-socialized and some stupid company went into bankruptcy because of an intelligent single-point-of-failure strategy.

The big downtime of Skype confused thousands of internet users. One of the most popular social technologies of these days broke down and mankind got a sneak preview of what the global power outages of the 21st century will look like.

If the interested man opens skype.com now he can read that Niklas Zennström, the CEO of Skype is full of hope when saying “that since the early hours of Saturday morning Skype has been back to normal.”

What man can’t read there and what is not surprising since I also got it only from the Greys is - that Skype works on an Afterlife connectivity in these moments.

Within a few weeks already it will be possible to talk with your gone but not forgotten ones. But there is still one big issue for Skype. Phone calls work everywhere the same on this planet. Dial, pick up, call.

Communication etiquette with people across isn’t that easy.

Depending on religion, personal well-being and the general existence of an Afterlife world it can be difficult to speak to those that are lacking a physical shape and are only made of frozen time. Furthermore also this fuzzy shape can be difficult to catch. What about people having died in plane crashes, suicide bombings, children having stepped on landmines, people that exploaded at eating-contests?

All these questions remain unanswered at the moment. But as the Greys assured me Skype is working on a solution to get into this part of the market very soon. The Greys expect that avataring will offer a toolkit could help. What the Greys are definetly excluding is their personal involvement into this project. Because Skype has been acquired by eBay they don’t support it any longer since all contracts between the Greys and the US were cancelled. (Read for more info).

Also isn’t sure if eBay itself will eventually make a step into Afterlife and try to establish the sale of Here-world-items to the dead. The other way round this model has been one of the biggest cash cows.

To the hard facts for the nuts: it hasn’t been announced officially so it is not sure what Skype will charge for this kind of calls and also not if there will be different prices for inbound and outbound calls. If maybe talking to Adolf Hitler for instance will be more expensive than talking to George W. Bush whoops Ronald Reagan.

Which points us to another interesting question. What about fame tourism like a million white haired grannies trying to call Princess Diana to ask her for the right colours of their curtains? Skype has also to work here I guess.

So go out now and light up a candle. It could be the last time you talk to the deceased in this way.

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