One of my biggest fears about going off to college was leaving my friends, family, and boyfriend.  It was scary enough moving onto the next stage of my life, but to do it alone only made matters worse.  I wished I could just pack them all up with me and we could all live in my rediculously small dorm room together.  However, we all know this was not plausable.  So I did the next best thing.

They couldn’t be there to communicate in person, but they could electronically via skype.  Skype is basically the ability to have a phone call with someone but you can see them through a web cam on the computer, phone, and/or ipod.  Skype made is possible for me to bring people from home with me in a sense.  I personally use skpye daily.  My boyfriend and I have had a long distance relationship for two years now and skype has played a huge role in that.  It has also helped keep my high school friends a lot closer to me because we can see each other and communicate as if we were with each other.  Not only am I a skype addict, but several classmates, friends, and i’m sure many other students are.  For example, a friend of mine that I met here at ISU is from Iran and he skypes weekly with his parents.  He said if it wasn’t for skype he’s not so sure how he would make it. 

Another type of communication that helped me when I came to college in several aspects was the ever so popular facebook.  Facebook is an online social network that ables you to communicate with other people and organizations online.  I use facebook endlessly throughout the day.  It is an application that can be installed on a smartphone which makes it of course even handier.  I have yet to meet a person in college that does not have a facebook account, so it is very easy to meet people and interact with them.  Facebook is alsmost the new cell phone I think. 

Everywhere I look people are using facebook just like they would be using their cell phones.  I use facebook to check out what my friends and family back home have been up to and to keep up with my friends here in Ames.  Facebook has made it very easy to meet more people due to you can add someone on facebook that you met briefly in class and then the relationship can go from there. 

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