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According to the news, hi-tech communications are helping families stay in touch and communicate better. I'm just wondering if all that time the kids seem to spend with their heads buried in MSN or Bebo or whatever is helpful or whether we'd be better off if they hadn't been invented...
What do you think? ❓
Don't know pablo - is it just that they spend time differently... In my day teens were on the phone all night... (Esp my sister). Now its facebook...
I think technology helps me keep I touch with them - I can drop em a text, or email easily... I often email stuff I've seen on the web that's funny or I think might interest them...
I would like to hear any ideas other have for how to use technilogy to keep in touch with their kids...
Any top tips??
Hi All ! millerzed here i am not sure hi-tech does it for me. I am an old fashioned male, a good verbal argument releases the tensions in my jaws. It is unfortunate that technology has replaced the physical contact we have enjoyed as human beings,(except when the physical becomes physical!)sometimes a cry for a hug in the physical makes all the difference.We are inter-relational beings and I do believe hi-tech is driving us deeper into modern caves. 😥
My kids are not old enough for me to be communicating with them via electronic methods as yet, but various of these methods help me stay in touch with family. I suspect it is just cyclical, with new methods of communicating the same things.
What makes me smile is when I am on the bus and I see a kid get on with their mobile phone blasting out music (usually very tinny sound), but it is same as back in 'youth' when kids walked around with a ghetto blaster or radio in hand blasting out their music. 😉
Although I have a Facebook login, I don't really use it - mostly because I get "sucked" in and it's never just 5 mins... However, I do e-mail a huge amount, and some texting. For me it means I do actually communicate with people, a really enjoy talking to people so again it's never a 5 min. call. E-mail or texting ensures it's quick.
So I'll use whatever medium works pratically. That's a very boring answer isn't... 😮
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