When I was a child in Thailand. I don't write to my sisters, brothers, friends and parents. I just talked to them face to face. After I moved to the city, I called my friends and family on the telephone when I was lonely. Sometimes I'd call just to say, Hi. I miss you. I never wrote letters then in 1987, I moved to Los Angeles to study English. What could I do. I had to start writing. I wrote long letters to my family, but I didn't have time to write such long letters very often also, the mail took a long time. Now I write my family and friends using email. I love it and its fast and much cheaper than a phone call and I can dodo it every day!