The world we live in offers some unique opportunities as well as challenges. You can now know, almost instantly, about anything major going on in the world. You can board a plane and fly to wherever you’d like to go. Plus, you can write a few words in a post, hit submit, and engage in a discussion with people from all over the country and world!
One of the best things technology has brought is the ability to keep in touch with family and friends. Last year while traveling in Scotland with my father, I could chat with my wife while riding on a bus from Edinburgh to St. Andrews. Plus, my kids regularly see and talk with my sister’s kids 350 miles away via Skype ’s video chat.
Which brings me to this week’s question:
How do you stay connected with your family and friends?
Let us know in the comments.
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We’re lucky that most of our friends and my side of the family are all local. My inlaws live states away. When we can we use iChat (all have Macs and its free) to video chat. My boys love seeing their grandparents and can share things they’ve made so much easier.
We use Skype to keep up with the grandparents. We’re in Atlanta and the grandparents are in NY. The kids love it! When hubby travels, we use it so the kids and Daddy get to say goodnight to each other.
I’ve kept up with friends more since we have all gotten on Facebook. It makes it too darn easy to keep connected. We are also big on texting. It’s an easy hit and keep going thing.
For a more in depth contact, I still use a phone. I would love to use skype but my friends aren’t into that yet so it would be a one way thing.
You tube videos are fun to show some one way things.
If I want to touch base with the in-laws, I just walk the long 3 houses up the street. UGH!
facebook
email
snail mail
oovoo
instant messengers
my blog
telephone
texting
old school~ phone and mailing photos mostly… but getting into sending short video clips via youtube more recently and using skpe more and more for business meetings and could SO see using this with kids (if i traveled). just need grandma to get skyped up so we can call her!
thank you for exploring “family connections”. important to think about what keeps us close. connection. my favorite word
email and phone calls, for the most part.
Making a list of people to start writing to, so snail mail will hopefully become a fairly regular contact method.
Occasionally I log in to my FaceBook account and see what friends are doing.
We all connect via Facebook. Everyone in the family has a facebook account. We live messages, e-mail or do video conferencing via skype to keep in contact.
The boys talk to their grandparents who are in Hong Kong via skype bi weekly.
We live local to much family. Twice a week we have live music picking sessions. We use email, phone, and letters to communicate. We are fond of keeping the writing tradition alive, but are also embracing new forms of communication. There is nothing quite looking someone in eyes and giving hugs, though! My husband doesn’t FB, I do. My husband surfs, but doesn’t do email, while I keep up the communications with family. My father in law is in Europe for the summer and whilst there, we are using Skype! Thanks for the lovely and valued postings!
I am a big advocate of greeting cards. With my son away at college, I typically send him a card twice a week letting him know what is going on. I like to send my wife a card at least once a month to tell her how much I love and value her. Greeting cards are a personal way to send out our thoughts and feelings. Email is good for short to the point items, but doesn’t have the feeling that you took the time to pick out something special for that person.
I make plans for use all to be in the same place at the same time at least once a month. It can be a “job” at times but it is worth it. I don’t believe it would happen if I didn’t take charge of making it happen. Also we share hobbies and connect via them when possible.