Hello and welcome to this week's edition of The Independent's lifestyle newsletter.
Skype has seen it all. High-pressure job interviews. Awkward transatlantic family gatherings. Long-distance love affairs (and breakups). Many of our big life events have been bookended by Skype's bouncy dial tone and its end-call notification that sounded a bit like a sneeze. That's because when the company's sky-blue logo landed on our desktop screens in 2003, it marked the first time ordinary people could access free computer-to-computer audio and video calls across the globe – and shifted our landline and mobile calls onto the internet. But on 5 May, the once-ubiquitous video chat platform will be closing its all-seeing eye for good after more than 20 years of service.
You may be wondering, though, how did such a beloved platform flop so disastrously at a time when our entire existence shifted online thanks to the pandemic? Find out more here.
Elsewhere this week, Felicity Martin looked into how delivery couriers got so brazen, leaving parcels inside wheelie bins, and even food waste disposals, instead of actually delivering them to the door. My favourite story from this piece: "One woman he spoke to ordered £300 worth of rare books, which never arrived despite the company's insistence they'd been delivered. Two months later, while pruning her wisteria, she found it had been lobbed on top of her garage." The thing is, almost all of us can relate to this, so how do they continually get away with it?
And if that got you feeling a little bit angry, then, do I have the piece for you. Check out Roisin Lanigan's deep dive into the rage epidemic, which looks into why everyone is angrier than they used to be (the Global Emotions Report published last year found that anger around the world had been on the rise since 2016). "Perhaps the best way to look at rage is not as an epidemic but as a cultural addiction. And like all addictions, unless we find a way to manage it, it will eat away at us, leaving less and less of ourselves behind a growing societal red mist," she writes. Read more here.
In this week's newsletter you can expect:
- Disgruntled user has left the chat: Is it time to hang up on WhatsApp?
- Is filler over? The era of the 'quiet' facelift is definitely in
- From penis straws to puppy yoga: Inside the 'zen do' revolution
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