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Interacting Electronically It is now much easier to stay in touch with grannies and grandpas as a result of the progress made in the area of electronic communication. The ease of email allows even a five-year-old to do it. This is wonderful because even grandparents who have a very difficult time with technology can be taught how to use email to send and receive messages. If a particular grandparent is notably unfamiliar with personal computers, you can surely opt for a simple laptop or pc and take around an hour to train them how to work it. There are even classes offered for exactly this sort of need at most local community colleges and community centers - many of them you can get for free or at a very minimal cost. After Grandma has seen a few photographs of the kids on her computer, she will usually be encouraged to discover what she has to do to keep the photos coming. Keeping In Contact Across Long Distances Other ways that Granny can use and enjoy technology to stay in touch even from her home across the country include: • Printing off digital photographs at home. Granny will not have a problem filling numerous photo albums in one year without even needing to go to a photo center, just as long as she owns the correct printer and photo paper. • Using Skype or alternative internet phone services. If Granny and you both currently have Skype accounts, then it will be free for you to talk Skype to Skype. Also, there are very cost-effective phone plans which can enable you to make calls to both cell phones and land lines. • Getting what you can out of special features on your cell phone. Many cell phone packages feature unlimited calling after a certain time, such as after six p.m. as well as on weekends. This free time can be a great opportunity to talk with the family. • Creating accounts on social networks. Sites like FaceBook.com and Twitter.com in addition to other social media sites allow family members to stay in contact with one another, share pictures, create status updates, and more. • Creating online photo albums. Check out Flickr.com and some other photo-sharing websites to create online photo albums that can be shared with family and friends. This can be a fantastic method for sharing significant events with grandma and other folks, and you can upload and share your pictures from school and family vacation and not have the long wait that snail mail demands. • Using a web cam to chat live. Using services like Yahoo Messenger, you and your distant grandparent will be able to talk face to face - for no charge! Web cameras are easy to work with, very reasonably priced and many of them take still pictures as well that can be used for printing off. These are just a few of the ways that you can stay in touch with your own loved ones across the miles that separate you - there are invariably many others that can make you feel like your grandma, grandpa or other relative is only right around the corner.
Article Source: http://www.bharatbhasha.net Article Url: http://www.bharatbhasha.net/family.php/338713 Article Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 LD
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