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How are you guys keeping in touch with your family and friends? Do you visit/call/e-mail/etc?
 

Face to face mostly. Half of the kids and grandkids live within a few minutes of our home and there's much interaction between these families. The others are only an hour or two away so they mingle on and off also. And then there is the phone calls and texting but I prefer batting the breeze over a cup of coffee.

Our kids and in their late 50's/early 60's and we rarely step outside of their company socially. That's why, personally, I dread the thought of an old folks home or some such place. Not particularly interested with meeting new people.
 
I talk with my brother almost every Sun.I spend couple days with him&his family during Thanksgiving. Its tricky weather wise whether I can fly out since its usually snowing that week here in WNY
My sister&I email each other every couple of months
I call or go see my friends on a regular basis Sue
 
How are you guys keeping in touch with your family and friends? Do you visit/call/e-mail/etc?

I do it all. Call, text, FaceTime, email, visit, Facebook, Messenger, Hangouts, instagram, Snail Mail...just depending on who, and where.

My son and DIL and 4 kids live across the country, so there's lots of FaceTiming and calls, and a visit or two a year. My other 4 kids live here in Nashville, so we do a lot of family get togethers for seasonal things, BBQ's or pot luck dinners depending not he time of year, birthdays (have one this weekend as a matter of fact...my son in law's birthday) and the traditional get togethers for Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas. I also text with all of them all the time, countless times a day, or every day, or every few days, depending on the kid. It's the easiest form of communication for me, because with my work I often can't actually talk on the phone, but I can always squeeze in a text response. I also use a bluetooth earbud headset so I can talk to text which makes it even faster.

Friends are somewhat different. The ones who are my age or close to, a lot of them haven't embraced technology the way I have, so they tend to want to talk on the phone or have lunch rather than texting or Facebook'ing. My life is pretty jammed, so that sometimes takes longer to accomplish. But again, that headset comes in handy! It's hands' free, so I use the time when I'm in the car (I drive a lot, to client's homes, to Ron's, for errands, etc.,) to chat.
 
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I text, call, or visit. Don't use email much unless documents or lots of photos are being exchanged, and this is with my mother. I cancelled my Facebook and Twitter accounts over a year ago. I don't Skype because I don't want to.
 
Some texting, but mainly a phone call, but do have and use Facebook. No kids of any kind to keep in contact with. We very seldom see anyone in my wife's family. They don't want to spend the money to fly and neither do we. Most of my family are deceased.
 
We live 2 blocks from my son and family...He shows up almost every other day...The kids and my son and daughter in law all work....They phone, or email us...
I have friends that communicate with me on email or phone...I don't do face book...We see each other often...Most are retired, also....

My family has Birthday's and most Holiday's together...Consisting of my brother and sister in law, and their family....

I talk every other day with my daughter...she lives an hour away....We will go to her on Monday....Granddaughter plays Field Hockey and invited my husband for a
Cancer Month. dedication......Grand daughter and Grand son will walk with my husband on the field (For Cancer Survivors)….
 
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I usually have to initiate all my conversations with my friends and sister.
They rarely or never call me. When I call them, they say or act happy I called
and are interested in what I say. But if they are really so interested,
then why did they wait until I called? Any why do they sometimes change the
subject or interrupt me when I am talking? I hesitate calling them for that reason.
Same with emails. I have to initiate it. If I call too often, they would not
answer the phone.
What do you think? Does this happen with you?
 
E mail, telephone and meeting up with friends my daughter and I e mail each morning and FaceTime each night, I don’t like texting, I also do a few hours voluntary work and try to go out every day, either for a walk or shopping
 
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Ronni said:
How are you guys keeping in touch with your family and friends? Do you visit/call/e-mail/etc?

I do it all. Call, text, FaceTime, email, visit, Facebook, Messenger, Hangouts, instagram, Snail Mail...just depending on who, and where.

My son and DIL and 4 kids live across the country, so there's lots of FaceTiming and calls, and a visit or two a year. My other 4 kids live here in Nashville, so we do a lot of family get togethers for seasonal things, BBQ's or pot luck dinners depending not he time of year, birthdays (have one this weekend as a matter of fact...my son in law's birthday) and the traditional get togethers for Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas. I also text with all of them all the time, countless times a day, or every day, or every few days, depending on the kid. It's the easiest form of communication for me, because with my work I often can't actually talk on the phone, but I can always squeeze in a text response. I also use a bluetooth earbud headset so I can talk to text which makes it even faster.

Friends are somewhat different. The ones who are my age or close to, a lot of them haven't embraced technology the way I have, so they tend to want to talk on the phone or have lunch rather than texting or Facebook'ing. My life is pretty jammed, so that sometimes takes longer to accomplish. But again, that headset comes in handy! It's hands' free, so I use the time when I'm in the car (I drive a lot, to client's homes, to Ron's, for errands, etc.,) to chat.
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Sparty60 here, can you explain more in detail how you use a Bluetooth headset? Thanks
 
I see this thread started in 2018. Still a valid question. For those that answered, would your replies be the same.

I mostly text. Young people (those under 45) rarely seem to read their emails. We talk on the phone, but that is more random when it happens. My husband calls his sons on Sunday morning. He did this for his mother.
 
Face-to-face in person with most of my closest friends, although one lives to the west about 350 miles (so by phone or email with him). One of my two living relatives, my brother, lives down in the U.S. and doesn't like internet communication (though his wife is okay with it), so phone is the way I go with my brother. My daughter out on the coast has no children, and we're quite close. We email comical cartoons to one another, and we talk by phone on Sundays.

I'm active in my community with an environmental group. We do scientific testing plus conservation & restoration work (river & wetlands). We really like each other, and we get together in person when possible, otherwise we use email, phone, and Zoom.
 
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I text mostly.
I have one lady friend that likes to go old school and use the phone, so I try to call her more than text.
 

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