After your friends leave for college, keeping up the friendship is a lot more difficult. The friends that you used to hang out with every weekend are now miles away. With a busy schedule, new friends, and exploring your new home, meeting up with your high school friends can be very difficult. Luckily, we live in era that has made long distance friendships easier. With the use of technology, your friends are only a few clicks away.
Nowadays, almost every college student has a smartphone. With the use of a smartphone there are multiple ways to contact friends, no matter the distance. It is very easy to message your friends via text. This is the most common way to communicate to almost anyone. This is a very easy method of communication because texting does not need an immediate response, and it does not take a great amount of time to respond. Other than texting, you can also go a more “old fashioned” route and actually call your friends. Although this is more of a time consuming way, nothing is better than having a real conversation to catch up. Similar to a telephone call, video chatting is a great way to verbally communicate to your long distance friends. Apps such as skype and facetime give you the easy opportunity to reach your friends. I believe this to be the best method of long distance communication because not only are you having a live conversation, you also get to see your friends. With basic technology, there is a multitude of ways to have a conversation with someone.
In the 21st century, a Smart has a billion of social interaction apps. One of the primary targets of a Smartphone is to be able to install programs while having a mobile device. To enable this, marketers will create programs that advance the way of communication to other people. Even with simple social networking apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, you can also check in with your friends to see what they are up to. Apps, like Snapchat, are an easy tool to not only seeing your friends but you are able to add a short message along with your picture. Facebook and Twitter are an easy way to indirectly share your thoughts and your agenda with your friends. Instagram is a great tool to keep up with what your friends are doing. You can see what they are doing, while experiencing their new college life, as well as they can add in a caption to give you a short description of what it is that they are involving themselves in.
Although you are separated from the people who you have spent the majority of your life with, in today's world, there can be many ways to use technology to interact with long distance friends.
