Keep In Touch With Friends
People can keep in touch with friends in so many ways in the 21st century that the options can almost make one's head spin. In fact, there is really no excuse for any person to really say it's impossible to keep in touch with people. As long as there is a public library nearby, one can communicate with friends twenty thousand miles away, and regularly if so desired. The Internet has made communicating quick, easy and free, and there are about as many forms of communicating over the Internet as there are days in the week. Consider first the lowly email.
It is estimated that there are at least six hundred million emails sent everyday all over the globe. Getting an email address is very easy, and there are a number of address providers that grant addresses free of charge. That means that no matter what computer a person uses, be it a personal laptop, a friend's or the one at the public library, the ability to get a letter in the form of an email is present every day of the week. The process of writing a ten or twelve word email message to keep in touch with friends can take less than a minute from beginning to end. The nice thing about emailing is that the message can sit in a person's virtual mailbox for days on end and not be shoved out into the weather by other incoming mail. The only obstacle to the person getting one's email message is if he or she allows their mailbox to get full of unopened messages, and then one's letter will be returned to yelectronically.
There are plenty of social networking sites that are free on the Internet that can help a person stay in contact with friends and family. These sites include MySpace and Facebook as well as dozens of other sites. Just enter the keywords "social networking sites" and a person will see all kinds of possible sites to join in order to keep in touch with friends. Most all of them are free, and they are a perfect place to kind of set up a virtual house in that neighborhood, and open the door for old and new friends to stop by and visit. These sites are easy to maneuver around in, even though there are millions of people using them. A person wishing to keep in touch with friends sets up their profile, including if one desires, a picture or more than one, and as much personal information as one wants to reveal. There are places built into every profile for people to stop by and leave text messages, so if people know a person is on one of these social networking sites, one can almost always be assured of having regular contact from someone in a person's social group.
Of course there are many providers of what is known as IM or instant messaging. IM is a way to talk to people through typing on one's keyboard as a real time conversation. In other words, a person types in hello, and watch their response to that greeting, and then the conversation can really take off. If a person can get their social circle to all be on the same IM provider, and most of these services are free, then each day can be filled with up to the minute conversations with all those friends with whom you may to converse. The commitment to keep in touch with friends must be a real and ongoing on, because it is far too easy to let friendships and relationships die, especially with the pace of American life. "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." (Proverbs 18:24) That "closer than a brother" friend is Jesus, if you will allow Him into your life.
Starting a blog is another terrific way to keep in touch with friends. A blog is usually musings that people just write down about things in everyday life, a sort of personal newsletter. It is a terrific way of kind of setting up shop on the Internet and letting people just stop at their leisure and see what is going on with you. They can leave comments and notes. Maybe one's blog is about work or faith or about a hobby or some passion in life. But when a person gives people his web address he will even find strangers stopping by and saying hello. One's blog may even be passed along to people a person will never know about, especially if it has useful information for others to use.
If a person is really serious about wanting to keep in touch with friends and is super anal about wanting to let one's closest friends know every little detail about every single day, then consider the use of Twitter, the answer too many Gen Y's desire to not cut the umbilical with their friends. Limited to 140 characters per blog, a person can tell the world what he had for breakfast, where he ate for lunch, how many reps he did at the gym, what movies he watched that evening, and on and on ad nauseam. There are so many ways that one can keep in touch with friends besides the phone and snail mail, that there should never be a lonely person on the planet. So why are there so many?
It is estimated that there are at least six hundred million emails sent everyday all over the globe. Getting an email address is very easy, and there are a number of address providers that grant addresses free of charge. That means that no matter what computer a person uses, be it a personal laptop, a friend's or the one at the public library, the ability to get a letter in the form of an email is present every day of the week. The process of writing a ten or twelve word email message to keep in touch with friends can take less than a minute from beginning to end. The nice thing about emailing is that the message can sit in a person's virtual mailbox for days on end and not be shoved out into the weather by other incoming mail. The only obstacle to the person getting one's email message is if he or she allows their mailbox to get full of unopened messages, and then one's letter will be returned to yelectronically.
There are plenty of social networking sites that are free on the Internet that can help a person stay in contact with friends and family. These sites include MySpace and Facebook as well as dozens of other sites. Just enter the keywords "social networking sites" and a person will see all kinds of possible sites to join in order to keep in touch with friends. Most all of them are free, and they are a perfect place to kind of set up a virtual house in that neighborhood, and open the door for old and new friends to stop by and visit. These sites are easy to maneuver around in, even though there are millions of people using them. A person wishing to keep in touch with friends sets up their profile, including if one desires, a picture or more than one, and as much personal information as one wants to reveal. There are places built into every profile for people to stop by and leave text messages, so if people know a person is on one of these social networking sites, one can almost always be assured of having regular contact from someone in a person's social group.
Of course there are many providers of what is known as IM or instant messaging. IM is a way to talk to people through typing on one's keyboard as a real time conversation. In other words, a person types in hello, and watch their response to that greeting, and then the conversation can really take off. If a person can get their social circle to all be on the same IM provider, and most of these services are free, then each day can be filled with up to the minute conversations with all those friends with whom you may to converse. The commitment to keep in touch with friends must be a real and ongoing on, because it is far too easy to let friendships and relationships die, especially with the pace of American life. "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." (Proverbs 18:24) That "closer than a brother" friend is Jesus, if you will allow Him into your life.
Starting a blog is another terrific way to keep in touch with friends. A blog is usually musings that people just write down about things in everyday life, a sort of personal newsletter. It is a terrific way of kind of setting up shop on the Internet and letting people just stop at their leisure and see what is going on with you. They can leave comments and notes. Maybe one's blog is about work or faith or about a hobby or some passion in life. But when a person gives people his web address he will even find strangers stopping by and saying hello. One's blog may even be passed along to people a person will never know about, especially if it has useful information for others to use.
If a person is really serious about wanting to keep in touch with friends and is super anal about wanting to let one's closest friends know every little detail about every single day, then consider the use of Twitter, the answer too many Gen Y's desire to not cut the umbilical with their friends. Limited to 140 characters per blog, a person can tell the world what he had for breakfast, where he ate for lunch, how many reps he did at the gym, what movies he watched that evening, and on and on ad nauseam. There are so many ways that one can keep in touch with friends besides the phone and snail mail, that there should never be a lonely person on the planet. So why are there so many?
Keep In Touch With Friends
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