As I spend a semester abroad at the moment, the internet is a massive support to keep in touch with my relatives and friends at home.
Several years back it wasn't that easy to keep in contact with all the people you love. Deciding to leave the home country to study or to work abroad necessarily meant to be on one's one. The only way to get on to your family or friends was to send them a letter. But it could take up to weeks until the letter actually reached them and another couple of weeks till you got their response. The telephone improved the situation as it allowed people to get in contact without time delay. Unfortunately, calling a person far away was always very expensive so that you still couldn't talk to them regularly.
The internet builds a huge effort in that regard. Due to platforms and services such as skype and blogs, you are able to immediately inform your relatives and friends at home about what you're doing and bothering. The internet for example provides you the opportunity to write a blog about your time abroad or to have a real-time-chat with the persons at home.
Me, for instance, I use to blog about my experiences at uni, with my housemates and all the persons I get to know in Bournemouth. Furthermore, I post a sample of all the pictures I take on facebook and I usually chat with my friends and my family several times a week.
To sum it up, the internet acts like an intermediator with my life at home and my life at Bournemouth.
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