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umyesh

umyesh

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I hope you’re all enjoying the longest day of the year!

I have a niece and nephew in town that we haven’t seen in person for three years so it was fun to visit with them Sunday. Their mom does a good job of posting regularly to Instagram so we can keep in touch.

Do you have friends or relatives who live far away? How do you keep in touch with each other?

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Stalk them on Facebook or Instagram, lol!!! I also text my son as we're on opposite coasts, call my long-time friend in New Mexico and email other friends. Luckily most of my extended family lives within 30 minutes of me.
 
Memaw2Wm said:
Stalk them on Facebook or Instagram, lol!!! I also text my son as we're on opposite coasts, call my long-time friend in New Mexico and email other friends. Luckily most of my extended family lives within 30 minutes of me.
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I’m definitely an Instagram stalker! lol You are definitely lucky to have most of your extended family within 30 minutes.
 
It's the shortest day for me!

We have family from Ireland staying at the moment. Brother and sister in law that emigrated there last year, along with my daughter who has a week's leave and is home.

My son and daughter-in-law live in the UK and we keep in touch via Whatsapp. I send them weather photos, cat photos and any other snippets from our lives here. We have video chats once a week or so. Plus there are memes and insta reels.
 
I keep up with the family in Florida that I'm very close to through Facebook. They are very good about posting photos of what is happening so I grab them to scrap. I'm in the process of scrapping the June 2023 trip to France. The grandkids are involved in a lot so I have a lot to catch up on so I can do the next Shutterfly book. Hopefully I'll be able to see them if they are in Michigan for their annual summer trip next month.

I do follow the family members I'm closest to on Facebook to keep up with their lives. Texts and phone calls also happen at times.
 
StefanieS said:
It's the shortest day for me!

We have family from Ireland staying at the moment. Brother and sister in law that emigrated there last year, along with my daughter who has a week's leave and is home.

My son and daughter-in-law live in the UK and we keep in touch via Whatsapp. I send them weather photos, cat photos and any other snippets from our lives here. We have video chats once a week or so. Plus there are memes and insta reels.
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I forget it’s the shortest day for half the world!

I’ve never used Whatsapp but it sounds like it lets you keep in touch very well.
 
HavaDrPepper said:
I keep up with the family in Florida that I'm very close to through Facebook. They are very good about posting photos of what is happening so I grab them to scrap. I'm in the process of scrapping the June 2023 trip to France. The grandkids are involved in a lot so I have a lot to catch up on so I can do the next Shutterfly book. Hopefully I'll be able to see them if they are in Michigan for their annual summer trip next month.

I do follow the family members I'm closest to on Facebook to keep up with their lives. Texts and phone calls also happen at times.
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That’s good you’re able to use Facebook.

Yay for scrapping a trip to France! I feel like trips are much more exciting to scrap than the everyday even though I feel like the everyday is more important.
 
Do you have friends or relatives who live far away?
Yes, I've got immediate family spread all across New Zealand, extended family in Canada and then Facebook/Instagram friends (combination of high school, university, previous work colleagues and scrapping friends) spread right across the world

How do you keep in touch with each other?
Text, phone calls, Facebook & Facebook Messenger for immediate family, Facebook and Facebook Messenger for extended family. Best friends it's a combination of Facebook, Facebook Messenger and text messages. Everyone else is FB & Instagram stalking
 
littlekiwi said:
Do you have friends or relatives who live far away?
Yes, I've got immediate family spread all across New Zealand, extended family in Canada and then Facebook/Instagram friends (combination of high school, university, previous work colleagues and scrapping friends) spread right across the world

How do you keep in touch with each other?
Text, phone calls, Facebook & Facebook Messenger for immediate family, Facebook and Facebook Messenger for extended family. Best friends it's a combination of Facebook, Facebook Messenger and text messages. Everyone else is FB & Instagram stalking
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Sounds like Facebook works well for you. I didn’t even know Facebook Messenger was a thing until recently; that’s how little I use Facebook.
 
umyesh said:
That’s good you’re able to use Facebook.

Yay for scrapping a trip to France! I feel like trips are much more exciting to scrap than the everyday even though I feel like the everyday is more important.
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It is fun scrapping places I'll probably never get to!
 
umyesh said:
Sounds like Facebook works well for you.
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It's more that it works for everyone else and I'm not a big texter in general and neither is most of my family - the last text message I received or sent that wasn't a one time pin from my bank to authorise payments was in March!
 
Most of my family lives close and I get to see them regularly. My kids often hang out with their cousins.
My hubby's family lives far away. We keep up with text and phone calls. We see them about once a year.
We have friends all over and I mostly keep up with them on social media.

My oldest daughter recently moved over 6 hours away (soooo hard, how do you moms do this?!?). We keep up every day with texts, facetime every couple of days and then sending each other funny reals/memes on instagram.
 
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Most of my family lives close and I get to see them regularly. My kids often hang out with their cousins.
My hubby's family lives far away. We keep up with text and phone calls. We see them about once a year.
We have friends all over and I mostly keep up with them on social media.

My oldest daughter recently moved over 6 hours away (soooo hard, how do you moms do this?!?). We keep up every day with texts, facetime every couple of days and then sending each other funny reals/memes on instagram.
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That’s fun your kids often hang out with cousins.

I’m sorry your daughter moved six hours away! I dread that!
 
I was just talking about this the other day - about how it's changed so much. When I was pregnant with my son and we lived far away from each other, I shared a newsletter monthly about how I was doing, and then how he was doing (via email). Then with my daughter I didn't (just no time!!). But then Facebook became popular when they were like 3 & 5 and that's really how I keep up with family far away!
 
tinkerbell1112 said:
I was just talking about this the other day - about how it's changed so much. When I was pregnant with my son and we lived far away from each other, I shared a newsletter monthly about how I was doing, and then how he was doing (via email). Then with my daughter I didn't (just no time!!). But then Facebook became popular when they were like 3 & 5 and that's really how I keep up with family far away!
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It has definitely changed a lot! I used to blog, then used Instagram, now I don't do anything lol
 
I have some friends that live far enough away that we don't see each other often and one especially that was in my wedding, but she isn't on social media, so we've had a harder time keeping in touch. She came to visit last summer and it was so great to see her and since then we've really been trying extra hard to stay in better touch. Otherwise, I love seeing pictures and updates from people on Facebook! And having cellphones with the ability to send pictures and texts is awesome too!
 
Karen said:
I have some friends that live far enough away that we don't see each other often and one especially that was in my wedding, but she isn't on social media, so we've had a harder time keeping in touch. She came to visit last summer and it was so great to see her and since then we've really been trying extra hard to stay in better touch. Otherwise, I love seeing pictures and updates from people on Facebook! And having cellphones with the ability to send pictures and texts is awesome too!
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It’s definitely harder when people don’t use social media (I’m one of those lol).
 
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