Posted On: Saturday, January 5th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I left Philippines in year 2000 for work in Thailand. The first few weeks seemed forever. That time, I wasn’t really that technologically knowledgeable. So I had to make very expensive phone calls just to update my family on what’s going on about my life in Thailand. It was the most difficult time for me as I was very attached to my family… and knowing that I was far away from them made my heart really ache to see them and talk to them.
Of course, I could do emails. But that was it, until a friend told me to use chat onlines instead. I was so excited! In fact, the first few times that I use online chat, I made a lot of friends from different parts of the world. It was indeed interesting.
The problem was, how to get my family to chat with me. Then I discovered there were so many free chat rooms in the net. At first, I told my sister. And she was all excited to know she could easily connect with me thru chat rooms. Then she told my parents about it. The next thing I know, I was chatting till I dropped with them.