Favorite Way to Communicate?

[6th Nephilim 0]

Let's see if this works this time. How do you prefer to chat up your sweetie?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I assume this refers to the time when we were separated by USCIS/DoS.

Telephone. I hate email and chat. And I still haven't figured smoke signals out.

[6th Nephilim 0]

Hum, I love the webcam, but I voted "telephone", too. However, I'm a little surprised to see the phone leading so well, given the fact that internet is free, relatively. I guess for me the telephone is somehow more relaxing, but it's a very tough call over seeing my baby's smiling face.

[j&js 0]

yea, I go with instant messenger because we are both just out of college and trying to save, so its our day to day chatting method. but I do cherish our weekly phone calls

[Cristy 4]

I am glad I have a good phone plan finally. $30 a month unlimited North America. We talk at least 3 times a day, more on weekends. Sometimes we just watch a movie together on the phone.

[Kajikit 65]

We used them all... well, except carrier pigeon! If you added them all together we were in contact with each other about twelve hours a day! But the most precious time was our twice-daily phonecalls... it cost John a fortune, even with phonecards, but he said he'd do it all over again if he had to because it brought us closer together and KEPT us together... he called me briefly every morning when he got up (when I was going to bed) and he called me for a longer time in his evening (about lunchtime...) Inbetween calls we used ICQ whenever he was at home, and for awhile we used IRC and chatrooms but we got tired of that.

[tom&tata 2]

We are almost broke because of phone calls but it's the best way to communicate. It's 12hrs time difference, so phone call is the most convinient. We only sent greeting cards or gift on snail mail. We are both too lazy to write emails, we use webcam/instant message mostly on weekend or when I go home early & he wakes up early enough.

Can't do carrier pigeon because I only have cat & turtle at home.

The phone companies are getting richer

[Jasman0717 9]

We used Yahoo IM all the time and then would talk on the phone for a while

[keltic 1]

while Tobe was still in the Netherlands, we would use the combo of the webcam and skype... it saved thousands of dollars...

if anyone out here still doesnt know about skype... please, please, please... for the sake of your wallets and communication, check it out... http://www.skype.com/

it works like a messenger, but you can actually talk to each other via the computer for free... as many hours as you want... and the rates of computer to phone are the cheapest i have found... there are no problems with incompatibility for those mixed relationships (mac user/pc user)

oh, and no... im not on their payroll

Edited February 2, 2006 by keltic

[Kaalyx 0]

Let me second keltic's endorsement. Skype is definitely my communication medium of choice. ... We leave it on all the time. He hears me make breakfast in the morning, and I can hear him shifting logs in the fireplace. It's great to hear those little sounds of life. ... Thankfully, this long-distance nonsense is ending soon! Interview next week

(I voted webcam, by the way, not knowing where Skype fits in. ... )

[keltic 1]

Let me second keltic's endorsement. Skype is definitely my communication medium of choice. ... We leave it on all the time. He hears me make breakfast in the morning, and I can hear him shifting logs in the fireplace. It's great to hear those little sounds of life. ... Thankfully, this long-distance nonsense is ending soon! Interview next week

(I voted webcam, by the way, not knowing where Skype fits in. ... )

exactly... i could even hear him snore

he watched and talked to us and "helped" us decorate our christmas tree...

i also voted webcam, since i was unsure of where skype would fall

[scy 0]

Missing option. Free internet voice chat. I use that the most. It's just like a telephone but only a whole lot cheaper. All the instant messaging softwares support voice chat and you dont' need a fast connection to use it.

[Marilyn. 340]

When we were still in our long distance relationship, we liked to talk on the phone mostly... the first few months of our relationship we just communicated over the internet..... then we started talking on the phone and we liked that much better..... we did like to use the webcam too but we would usually talk on the phone while using the webcam .... it messed up our computer when we tried to use voice and webcam at the same time ....

Now I am glad we can communicate face to face .... I don't miss those old days of talking on the phone at all

[almaty 19]

telephone

[7th Nephilim 0]

I voted phone too, cause as the lazy person that i am i like being able to lay down while talking

I need webcaming pretty badly too though, thats what i figured the last days where i couldnt see my man for far too long!

(cant wait for him to come home tonite )

OMG im a junior member!! OH YESSS

Edited February 3, 2006 by 7th Nephilim