Communicating with my friends and family

I'm quite far away from my family. My family lives in kuwait and I live in australia doing my bachelors of information technology. Communication with my family is not very often, but communicating with them is very important for me because my parents are the one who are supporting my education here in australia. I use international calling cards more frequently to communcate with my family. I sometimes also use msn messenger and emails to send documents to my family. But using calling cards is much easier and quick way of communcating important and urgent messages.

I've got friends in sydney, gold coast, india, kuwait, UK, USA and many other parts of the world. I usually use msn messenger or email them to communicate with them.

Communcating with people i've only met online and never seen is very different to the people I see everday. I think to know more about a person you need to have physical contact with the person, since body language of the person also a part of communication.

I've used these communcation technologies (phone, msn and email) since I was in my 8th grade. I started using these technologies to communicate with my relatives in india. The more I used it, they more important they got !!!

Using communcation technologies do help in socialising but communcating with people face to face really helps in socialising and knowing the person much more. I don't really use communication technologies to socialise because for me to understand a person their face expression and body language is very important. I would use communicating technologies only when the person is far away from me.