How To Keep in Touch Without Using the Phone

These days with e-mailing and online-chatting some people wonder exactly what a land-line phone is. There are so many ways to keep in touch that a phone is almost unnecessary now. Here are just a few ways about how to stay in touch without using a phone.

1. Of course, the most popular way to stay in touch these days is by e-mail. There are actually some services which do not even require you to have an Internet service to have e-mail, and some are even free of charge. E-mailing is also extremely simple to figure out how to use. Exchanging e-mail is a wonderful way to keep family and friends up to date on what is going on in your life. You can attach files, pictures, and other items of interest to your e-mails. This makes it extremely easy to let people see your children, pets, or other people or things which your family and friends may enjoy. 
2. Then there is online chatting to keep people in touch. This is the equivalent to talking on the phone while using a computer. So you are still keeping in touch without using a phone. Online-chatting can actually be done through most e-mail sites now. This gives you the opportunity to talk to your friends and family "live" online. You will be talking in "real time" by sending a message and getting a reply instantly. This is wonderful to be able to sit and actually chat with a loved one who is over seas or in another state or country. You can find out what is happening in their lives right then without waiting for hours or days to get a reply thus getting old news. And, of course, there is now video chatting where you can actually hook up video cameras to computers and see the person while chatting with them.
3. And we should not forget online websites that let you connect with friends and family. This is the fun way of keeping in touch without using the phone. These websites let you connect only with those friends and family you really want to keep in touch with. You can add them as friends and then you are able to read their posts, see their pictures, and even have a live chat with them if they are online at the same time you are. You can keep up with their birthdays this way also by adding them to a birthday calendar (offered on Facebook). You can even play games with family and friends. Also you can post things for them to read and pictures for them to see. This is probably the most fun way to keep in touch since there is so much you can do on these websites.

Therefore, we must say "sorry" to all the phone companies out there because there are just too many other ways to keep in touch these days without using a phone.