Watch something with somebody who is not in the room
Start a program at the same moment as somebody two hundred miles away, and talk about it while it plays.
Sunday evening, and your sister is two hundred miles away. Watching the same thing at the same moment is the closest a screen gets to putting her in the opposite chair.
Key points
- Send somebody an invitation to watch the same thing at the same time
- Know they need their own account on a paid service
- Arrange a shared evening using nothing more than a telephone
What to remember
- The link is the mechanism. Text it, email it, read it out.
- Ask what they already have before you plan the evening.
Try this
Arrange one this week. Something on a free catch-up service, eight o’clock, and a count of three.
Practice: Watch something with somebody who is not in the room. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.