keep in touch with my friends

OK, this is definetly a task for the whole life. To be able to tick it of one day I’ve to do the following:
I’ll be moving soon. Instead of writing a mass email to all my friends and relatives I’d like to use the opportunity to write personal emails or phone them to tell them my new address and to catch up with some news. After this I want to contact everybody I’d like to stay in touch with at least once again to then tick this off.
When contacting people I should actually try and encourage them to visit me or to meet somewhere else. Seeing somebody is better than 10 emails.

This is a never ending task and has always bothers me. I really want to do this but at the same time I never get around to actually do it. Maybe having this entry will help me.
It should be so easy with everybody having email. But instead of dropping a few lines now and then I always intend to write a long, nice, informative letter-like email and of course never do it …
To change this might be a first step.