Zac Echola is muffin but trouble

Uncategorized: The meme that doesn’t end

Published on 26/02/07
by Zac Echola

Brian Keith asks, because Marianne Richmond noticed: How do you keep in touch with friends and family?

I have a Facebook account that I check pretty often, but I use it primarily to keep in touch with old and distant friends every once in a while. Some of my friends spend hours upon hours on the site, something I can’t bring myself to do. I’ve begun using it as a place to share photos with friends as well, and use my flickr account to share photos with friends and family that don’t want to join facebook.

And while I’m on the social network subject, I also have a LinkedIn account for professional networking.

But there’s two sources I use to stay connected to friends and family more than anything: my phone and Google Talk.

Except with family, I try to keep phone conversations under a minute or two, usually to agree upon a bar or restaurant to meet in.

I spend hours online everyday because of my job and because I think I’m addicted, so gTalk keeps me in touch.

But wait? No email? Correct. I hate emails from friends and family. I hesitate to even hand out a personal email to friends, even though I have several for my blogs and other personal endeavours. Chain mail drives me up the wall. When I give out my email to friends or family, I tell them that if they send me anything with a “FW:” I won’t read it.

Usually they’ll slip one in and make up an excuse like “NO REALLY THIS IS A HILARIOUS PICTURE OF A CAT WEARING A PARTY HAT, YOU’LL LOVE IT SO MUCH ZAC: TRUST ME” and when I find out it’s not that funny I give them one more warning. After that, blocked without remorse!

So there you have it.

The end. Or is it?

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