Social Media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are great ways to communicate with people back home. Both sites allow you to constantly update those back at home on your travels. Facebook offers not only instant messaging but video calls similar to skype. If you are using a data only cell phone, the Facebook messenger app (examples shown) is a great way to communicate with local study abroad students and/or people back home. More information can be found in the links the to right about how to use Facebook abroad.
When I studied abroad in Spain I would use Facebook to communicate with people back home as well as those who traveled to Spain with me. Because the Internet connection in the home I was staying in could be spotty, full video chats were a rarity but Facebook messenger would come to the rescue.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a good idea, but I know many countries heavily censor social media like facebook so while that's a great idea, it's probably best to have a few different means of communication..
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