How do you keep in touch with your friends
By innerdoll
@innerdoll (60)
Hong Kong
May 6, 2012 1:47am CST
I finished my years at school recently. It seems difficult to hang out with friends when everyone's got a full time job although i know time can be squeezed out. It's like everyone is tired after a day or a week of work that no one wants to hang out. Does anyone has any suggestions for me?
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14 responses
@viji_v2 (727)
• India
6 May 12
After school or college it is difficult to have in touch with friends. You can mark a day and meet in that day as group in particular place. And as now the connecting media like mobile phone, internet are available you could stay in contact with each other. If someone changes their number they have to update to others.
@asuankhor (37)
• Taiwan
6 May 12
That's right,i do it after my school.Although i in oversea now,i still keep in touch with my friend,I always using facebook to keep in touch with my friend,when I back to my country,i also with contact my friends to meet up.
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
7 May 12
You can always keep in touch with facebook, and cell phones too. You can plan outing once or twice a year, when everyone has breaks.. Or you can go to your close friends house and just talk..
@youless (112582)
• Guangzhou, China
7 May 12
Now we all get married and have our own careers and familes. Therefore, we don't often go out to have a meal together since it is difficult to match each other's time. I like to keep in touch with my friends by the modern ways. Such as we can contact with each other by the online chatting software, email, SMS and so on.
I love China
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
6 May 12
This is one problem once everyone has their own job.
It is hard to find time to be in a group again- and this is just a start.
Once you have your own family- the bonding with friend will become more lesser.
What matters most is, the friendship is still there- it just happen that everyone has to start a new life and prepare for the future.
Well, you can always set a once a month get together party.
Try to organize it ahead of time and check everyone's availability.
Maybe time will differ, but at least one stays for an hour or two, that would be great then.
@lovelyn_medrano (3070)
• Philippines
7 May 12
You can stay connected with your friends even if you seldom see or hang out with them... it is true that offline jobs particularly those 8 hours full time works are tiring but as I said connection is not limitted to going out. By simply sending text messages to them, once in a while, checking how they do means a lot... call them on the phone... :)
With my own experience, when i started working, I really choose to spend my weekend at home to relax and rest.. but whenever I see or receive text messages with my friends even if its just a forwarded messages, they make me feel somehow good. The feeling of being remembered is nice, and to think they too are busy and tired with their own work.
@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
7 May 12
Through cellphones and social network sites really helps a lot to be in touch with friends.Try to set schedules wherein your friends and you are available.I think your will definitely find time.There will times that everyone will really busy but keeping in touch always will make the friendship work out and last.
@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
6 May 12
There's a lot of ways now to communicate there is cellphone, e-mails, twitter, facebook and the simplest ways is trough texting. So if any one who wants to hang out ahead of time through calls and text are the best way to keep in touch.
@airasheila (5454)
• Philippines
6 May 12
hello there innerdoll,
with reference to your main topic, it is really hard to get in touch in my circle of friends. as many of them already have their own families. what we are just doing is that, we try to organize our own social networking page so we can communicate exclusively regarding our own issues and discussions. hence thru this, we able to get in touch somehow.
@HeartROB (434)
• Philippines
6 May 12
You want to hang out with your old friends? I guess the best thing that you could do in order for you to be able to hang out with your old friends is that you could set a schedule a head of time that is most comfortable to them, and you, you should give way to their set schedule. I mean you should consider their set schedule even though their set schedule is not convenient for you. That is if you really want to hang out with them. But then, if they are really your friends, you could just easily talk to each other and set a date for a hang out. Have a nice day to you my friend.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
6 May 12
I did not after all these years with people I met at school. Friends (before) by visiting, calling. Nowadays by email/sms and meeting eachother once in a while.
@jureathome (5361)
• Philippines
6 May 12
It really is not easy to gather your friends, when they are all working. When I stopped working at end of last year, I seldom see them in person. We exchange text messages sometimes, and also chat on FB. But, I would understand why they can't see me that often, because I was also not very flexible when I was still working full time. So, I completely understand all the stress they may be going thru and that they need much rest.
@enaira0531 (16)
• Philippines
6 May 12
I keep in touch with my best friends through BBM. That's the fastest way to reach them since they are too busy at work. I really miss my friends a lot. Both of us have different schedules and days off, it's hard to make an appointment with them. Sometimes I send messages through SMS but they don't reply back. But every time I send them BBM message they answer right away.