Let me say this here, from my perspective... You know how great the technology have changed the deaf community. By starting out with old TTY.. you don't get much of visual communication. When deaf people don't talk much about who the TV/Movie hearing actor/actress are and such. Many hearing people saw the ad's and got a keen interest on something.
So, you don't get much seeing other deaf people around when you all leave from school/college. TTY is so limited. Later, the internet technology becoming so popular..talking about AIM, Yahoo and so on... then video technology emerge... VPs start to appear, popping up everywhere. Facebook start becoming popular to reconnect deaf community and now this VP "advertisement", we all start to reconize who those people are. Then I see how we all bringing back the deaf community tighter again. You know back in the old day, after we all left from school/college, it's like we are breaking apart and start to desperse. Never seen each other again. Today.... it's like we all bringing back together again, because of great video internet techonology.
Now with this advertisement, we all love to see someone back again, we are a tight community and we love to see someone again or curious about someone again.
SO, you know back in the old day..it's nothing like this... that is why I'm laughing is because it's great to see all this.
In your perspective...you thinking of negative way...but it would be nice if we have vido conversation to catch quickly if this not what I meant.