Once you make a commitment to call, make sure you stick to it. Make sure you are aware of fees or usage charges with your phone provider. These will vary based on carrier.
Make sure this is a time where you can devote some attention to really listening and talking.
Video chatting will let you feel like you’re in the same room with your friend. You can also show them your surroundings and let them feel like they’re there with you!
In this case, neither of you will feel pressured to respond if you’re too busy. You can just text a response whenever you have a free moment!
These apps are particularly useful if your friend or friends live in foreign countries because they won’t charge you per message for “texting” to a different country.
Make sure to also maintain personal friendships with the members of your group chat by taking the time to text or call them individually on occasion.
To start an ongoing chain of emails where you respond to one another over time, include some questions at the close of your email for them to respond to. For example, you could ask “How is your family doing?” You can also ask more specific questions about your shared interests, such as “Did you see the football game on Sunday? What did you think about the quarterback’s performance?”
The general setup for a letter is to include a greeting, some personal information about your life, and ask questions for them to respond to in their reply.
You can opt to send cards out regularly for holidays and/or birthdays.
If you aren’t interested in sending gifts or can’t, you don’t have to. There are many other ways to keep in touch! It’s not necessary to do this frequently. You could save a small gift that you found to send for their birthday or a special holiday.
You can also send posts directly through the Facebook Messenger app, which is more private and does not allow other people to see that you have tagged them in the post.
You can also tag them in replies to Tweets by using their username and the “@” symbol.
You can also tag them in replies to Tweets by using their username and the “@” symbol.
Snapchat notifies you with a fire emoji when you have sent snaps back and forth multiple days in a row. Keeping the “streak” going for long periods of time is a fun activity and gives you incentive to keep snapping.
Snapchat notifies you with a fire emoji when you have sent snaps back and forth multiple days in a row. Keeping the “streak” going for long periods of time is a fun activity and gives you incentive to keep snapping.
