Category: Zone BBS Q&A
Just a quick question... It seems that most people who go on Zone By phone private confence. Is there a reason for this? There are others who use it as a voice mailbox, but the private confrence seem to be a big thing.
John
Well John,
It would appear to me, that people either use the private conferences for ... conversations they want to keep private, or, for conferencing with a group of their friends, that they want to speak with only at that time. (which means they would only give certain people access to the conference pin.)
I know that it sounds stupid, the way I'm writing the answer to your question, but I'd think, that the question would've answered itself. I mean ... the name ... private conference does sort of ... well ... self-proclaim, doesn't it?
Amber
My thoughts exactly, Amber. People want to speak in private. Away from the rest of the world, hence why it's private conference.
It's just another way for certain snobbish people to have a phone chat with their snobby friends and leave out people they consider to be undesirable. Just like cliques back in high school.
Awww, come on. Everyone has people they like being around and people they don't. Private conferencing is just a way to only talk with the people you want to talk with. I don't use the conference feature at all, but if I did, I'd do the private conferencing thing.
And Amber's post made me chuckle.
I would just like to add something here that shea said so well in another topic. The private conferences hold more people than the public ones do. So when there are more than the public limit who all want to chat together, we move to a private conference so that all can get in. I will also say that there have been people let into the private conference I am in that I didn't know so therefore wouldn't have thought to give them the code, but yet I got the chance to get to know new people this way also. So the private conferences that I have participated in haven't necessarily been for private reasons but more for capacity reasons.
Becky, why not join us on the system and find out if we mighten't just invite you to such private conferences proving there is nothing schoolyard about it. there will always be undesirables who you can tollerate for a time, but after a while want to relax and talk with your closest friends, why this should be a reason to say it's about being snobbish I really don't know.
Okay, okay! Sorry I said what I said. When I first heard about the private conferences, my gut reaction was that it was sort of an elitist system for snobs who wanted to make others feel left out. But as I have never even tried the conference system myself, I realize I shouldn't have assumed anything. And I didn't realize that the private conferences could be used to make more room on the system for more people when needed. So obviously I spoke out of turn. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Didn't know the private confrence had less of a limit. I suppose if say more than 6 people wanted to yack, they'd do the private confrence thing and give those extra people there code. This all makes sense and dollars.
At first I thought of it like a cleak too, but then itt occured to me that the friends I did have in there didn't think to give me access because either they weren't logged into the zone, or whatever.
Privating is not a bad thing.
John
Exactly. As the public conferences can only hold 6. alot of times if someone else wants to get in, going to a private conference is sensible since it can hold up to 10, so really even though it can be used to talk about private matters, as previously stated it can also be used to allow more people into the current conversation.
and it's not as if you never use private conferencing yourself.