The Traps of Social Media: Part 2 - Tidy up the keepers

Onto our next topic of this mini-series: When you have deleted the profiles on the pages you no longer use, you need to tidy up the ones you do want to keep. For me, this involves among else Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Last.FM, Posterous (my blog-platform) and Foursquare.

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How to make long-distance relationships work: A list

DISCLAIMER: Not just talking about the love-kind of relationships now, but friendships, families, and so on. 'Aight?

  • In one way or another, keep in touch. I Skype with my boyfriend all-over maybe 6 days a week, with my mom at least once a week, and with my closest friends as often as I can. Same goes with text-chat via i.e. Facebook/Google+ and SMS. If you keep in touch and talk about everyday crap/fun, you will not necessarily feel THAT far away from each other.
  • I love getting random picture messages from my friends, they tend to make me laugh when I need it, and it brightens my day up, I also try to send something back.
  • Snail-mail might feel old school to some of you, but there is NOTHING that makes me feel closer to someone than a card or a letter that I can tuck away somewhere and read as many times as I feel like it.
  • With one of my closest friends I made a deal before I left for university: We are both writing some type of a journal, and when the year has passed, we will switch and read the other journal while together, so the moments don't disappear. Truth be told, I don't write as often as I should, but at least I do it once in a while, right?

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