A great amount of people do - it's fast, easy and free to use it. Mostly people who met online use it, but a friend of mine also use it on a daily basis to call his family, friends, etc. Personally, I haven't used it in years, but that's probably because I don't like calls.

Coco - first let me make a few suggestions about the wording of your quesiton (they way you worded your question). I really do not know why every time someone add ADDS me as A friend, AFTER not chat CHATTING too much will ask me: do you have SKYPE? ? Why? I want to know , are you learning language use the SKYPE USING SKYPE? OK - Skype is used by 20,000,000 people in many, many countries. Skype is very similar to QQ. You can send text meesages, and you can speak to someone (computer to computer for free). Most people prefer to speak rather than just texting. I think those are the main reasons why people like to use Skype. Hope this answers your question. If you want to get the Skype program for free, just go to http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/windows/ then click on "Get Skype" then click on "Windows" then click on the blue button "Download Skype". You can then talk to someone or you can have a video talk. Just be careful who you talk to.

Skype works better then the chat used on this website because this websites chat is slow. The website even recommends to use skype for the video component to teach with.

I really wish ,thanks.

Abroad the skype should like our　QQ