spend more time talking with people in person

...communicated more in five minutes than I had ever in e-mail or AIM in the past year.

In person definitely better.

Have been doing well with this. Keeping AIM off except when necessary (and for an hour or so at night in case some distant friend wants to contact me) helps a lot. Especially: no conversations on AIM! or the telephone. Only planning things: any conversing can wait until the planned things happen (and will be much more fulfilling then).

Talking is so much more fun in person, and so much more can be said, with such better quality!

You know, e-mail and IM is great and all, but I find talking with people in person, in the flesh, face-to-face, to be much more fulfilling. More things get said, feelings are better shared, and it allows me to concentrate on talking to them.

So I’m gonna try to do more of that. Unfortunately some of my good friends are too far away to see in person, otherwise I would sign off AIM for a good while (I hate talking on telephones).