Who do you stay in touch with most often?

[petra]

Of all the people you call/text/chat with, who do you stay in the closest contact with?

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[petra]

Of people I know not-via-the-internet, my mom.

Internet people, I am a very good correspondent for like three people and the rest of the world can go hang.

[rhi]

Thank you for keeping all of us in contact with someone!

[petra]

Glad to do it!

[aurumcalendula]

Definitely my mom.

[petra]

I've gotten my mom to mostly stop sending me bad news, which is helpful under the circumstances. It doesn't slow down the flow of Interesting Links by much.

[dine]

people in my computer - misbegotten with multiple daily e-mails and occasional texts and rattlecatcher with lengthy (multiple hour) phone calls every week or so, and Rica the same

family - calls with my mom every few days, and regular/daily text and sometimes e-mail exchanges with my sister, though we don't talk on the phone that often

and I exchange snail mail semi-regularly with misbegotten and james, in addition to the cards I send out randomly to folks in my address book

[petra]

Those are some nice long phone calls. I'm glad you're doing so much to feel connected to people.

[rhi]

I've got two friends in town where I'm the emergency contact for them. (Their next of kin are states away.) I contact them regularly, and am in close contact with some of my friends online, via discord or email or Trillian. Oddly, my mother and I talk only a couple times a month, but she's extremely hard of hearing and finds phone calls and Facetime exhausting. (I wish she was on Trillian.)

[petra]

I lowered my phone time-per-month considerably by getting my mom into GChat. She was already using a gmail address, so it was just a case of teaching her the functionality and letting her go wild texting me stuff at all hours of the day and night.

[minoanmiss]

WD, I'd say. We definitely email every day.

[petra]

Makes sense.

[daegaer]

The Squee Fest people, who both live in the internet and my phone and are RL friends as well!

[petra]

Oo, lucky you having a RL-and-interwebs posse!

[daegaer]

We would normally meet up at the end of this month for a four-day weekend in York of fic/TV/ice cream/high pitched shrieking/general hilarity, but alas, it will be virtual this year!

[illariy]

Mostly two local friends but one is 90% messaging to organise in-person meetups. There are also a couple of other people who I message with a couple of times a month. I am horrible about phone calls but trying to get into them more, at least for the people who I cannot see in person, which is sadly too many because a lot of my local friends have moved away.

I also have about 20 penpals but only about 4 or so are fast repliers. I take a lot of time to reply these days so that is A-OK with me. I love writing letters with my fountain pens.

I used to IM with a couple of people I met via LJ and DW but that has not happened in a while and Yahoo!Messenger, which I used to use, does not even exist anymore. I miss those days. I guess I should try to get into Discord. Hm.

[petra]

Messages to organize in-person meetups definitely count on the scale of things worth doing frequently!

20 penpals! I am extremely impressed.

I don't know where one starts with getting into Discord, so I will wish you luck and leave it at that.

[illariy]

Yes, I love that I am no longer in half-quarantine nor in the hospital and able to meet up with friends in person. It is a great joy and raises quality of life so much!

Oh, some of those are only once a year so it is less impressive as it sounds. But it is my main hobby outside of meeting friends in person and reading and watching Youtube, which are more passive. I love it a lot.

So far, I have downloaded the app and bookmarked some links to groups that might be interesting. But I have social anxiety and not a lot of energy so have not gotten any further than that. Hehe. Thank you for the good wishes, though! Much appreciated.