- Would you say that you're good at keeping in touch with people?
- Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why?
- Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it?
- Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away?
- Are you an "out of sight, out of mind" person, or do you believe that "distance makes the heart grow fonder"?
Long haul, sure, short term, nay. I try to make this clear to friends, that I care about their lives and am delighted to hear from them as often as they can write, even if I don't specifically ask. I try, but I often fail. It doesn't help that with me it's always feast or famine. Five emails in an hour... then silence for the rest of the year.
Email. Email. Email. Blog comments? Gracious. Who prefers blog comments? (Mind you, if I ever start getting blog comments on a regular basis, perhaps I'll change my mind.) We're not talking about hanging out, just touching base or conveying limited information, right? Email is less disruptive than the telephone and faster than snail mail. Email lets me collect my thoughts before I spew them like pick-up sticks across your screen.
Yahoo! Messenger is my preferred IM, but I usually only open it to do something with Mike when bphone isn't an option. (Like if we're amongst other people and ostensibly in other windows.) I have a few friends on YM plus strangers of like minds who find me from the old Y! clubs.
No one ever grabs me on AIM. I was using it for cell phone blogging with BlogBuddy, but the semi-conversion to MT ended that. And somewhere in all this there is ICQ, which I respect in theory but hate in practice. What a 16 colour sprawl. It was great for using with HoneyQ, though, albeit briefly.
I'm grateful for the number of close friends I have in this country.
Fonder, definitely. Everyone looks better from miles away.
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