[BlindTlk] Questions about Facebook and Zoom

[David Andrews]

It should work overseas. The domain says US but it can be reached 
from anywhere, unless that country blocks it. Also, when you set up a 
meeting you can include international numbers -- although most don't.

Dave

At 10:57 AM 12/11/2020, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I hope this message finds everyone safe and well.
>
>I just have some questions that I hope someone can answer.
>
>My music school will be holding a virtual end-of-the-year recital 
>next Wednsday, and I was thinking about inviting my friends and 
>family to the Zoom call so they can here me playing the piano. 
>However, some of my relatives live in France, and I'd like to know 
>if Zoom is supported internationally or only in the United States. 
>For one thing, the main domain name for Zoom is "zoomddus" rather 
>than discom or disorg like most websites. In addition, every single 
>time I've received an email invitation to a Zoom call, they always 
>list phone numbers where you can dial in from different US area 
>codes, but they never say anything about joining in from another 
>country. So I was just curious whether anyone has insite on this. I 
>did join a Zoom information session about my potential graduate 
>school aab a month ago, and there were actually a lot of 
>international participants on that call, but I'm not sure if they 
>joined from the same link as me or if it was different.
>
>Similarly, I also plan to post the video of my performance on 
>Facebook for anyone who is unable to attend the recital. However, 
>I'm wondering whether Facebook would allow me to post the video. I 
>have watched very short videos and some longer ones on Facebook, 
>although the latter is usually from people going live. When posting 
>videos directly from my phone camera, I really don't know whether 
>Facebook would allow me to do so, since the video I made is 
>approximately five minutes long (I found out it's 293 MB in size, 
>including both the sound and image).
>
>I hope someone can shed some light on either or both of these two 
>queries for me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sami