HOW I USE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

This week I am supposed to write about how I use new communication technologies to communicate with my friends and family.This is an interesting sbject for me, since all my best friends and my family live in Brazil, and therefore I depend on technology communication to talk to them. New communication technology makes part of my life. Every day when I sit in front of the computer I check my e-mail. After that I go straight to my orkut. Most of the Australians probably do not know what an orkut is, and I will try to explain briefly. It is an on-line community that connect people thru your friends. Only invited people are allowed to join. Once you accept the invitation, you create your orkut page. There you can write about yourself, you can post photos, join communities and do lots of other stuff. But I what I most use it for is to talk to people. It is really hard to explain it if you never used it. If someone wants to know more abot orkut or join it let me know and I can help you.
And all the time I am connected to the internet, I am on-line on the MSN messenger. Right know while I am typing, I am talking to a friend of mine in Brazil. I have the audio on, so I do not have to type, and we have te cameras on, so we can see each other.
Another technology that helps me a lot is the skype or the voip. With that I can call overseas for a really cheap price. I use it every to talk to my friends and family.
Without the communication technologies I mentioned above I would not be able to talk to everyone in Brazil so often because the telephone bills would be to expensive, I would not be able to get written communication instantly (thru the post itwoud take ages), and I would not be able to see them thru a web cam. So I am really happy about the new communication technologies!