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Several of my posts are an extension of my Facebook wall comments but it came to my attention that some of my friends are not on Facebook, either they refuse to hop on the wagon, haven’t heard about it… whatever the reason I wonder how they fill their day and keep in touch!!!
I remember when we first moved to Buenos Aires and not everybody had an email address (or at least they were not checking it regularly) and us being in a part of town with cable connection (we had to downgrade in the speed service when we moved to Aberdeen… so much about “developing countries”!!) but with very high cost of phone connection it was one of our main link. I still had to handwrite our whereabouts to some of our family members and friends… time have changed. I don’t think I sent one Christmas letter by mail this year. First it would cost me a fortune to send them worldwide (or I would have to serious downsize the list) and second in several countries we’ve lived in the postal service wasn’t that efficient.
I remember when we first moved to Buenos Aires and not everybody had an email address (or at least they were not checking it regularly) and us being in a part of town with cable connection (we had to downgrade in the speed service when we moved to Aberdeen… so much about “developing countries”!!) but with very high cost of phone connection it was one of our main link. I still had to handwrite our whereabouts to some of our family members and friends… time have changed. I don’t think I sent one Christmas letter by mail this year. First it would cost me a fortune to send them worldwide (or I would have to serious downsize the list) and second in several countries we’ve lived in the postal service wasn’t that efficient.
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It seems that the world is divided between Facebook lovers and haters. For me it’s part of my routine like checking my emails and reading the news on line (but I’m a techno geek) and I love to see what my friends scattered around the world are up to, it makes me feel like I’m still part of their life. Sure I’ve tried to keep in touch with people I’ve met in the last 20 years of my nomadic life with yearly letters and some of our friends are even luckier and get updated more often but there is something different about the little thing that goes on our daily life. I also like to chat on Skype with old friends and it’s great for the kids to stay connected with the family. The ultimate is Skype messaging between different time zones…I’ve managed to Skype between the USA, Europe and Australia at one time with some of the girls from the Beijing Gang.
Anyway I wanted to share here my current Facebok profile picture…. I’m planning on changing it every month with a different theme (and trying to keep the same pictures of me on the Great Wall). Last month picture is here
Anyway I wanted to share here my current Facebok profile picture…. I’m planning on changing it every month with a different theme (and trying to keep the same pictures of me on the Great Wall). Last month picture is here
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