Nag Chat na ba Kayo ?

Internet Voice and Chatting, Helping OFW's reduce the loneliness of being away from their loved ones. I remember about nine years ago when internet was not a household buzz here in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We would run to the nearest call cabin just to call our wife,kids,girlfriend,mother and dearest friend and spend about 5 dollars a minute
just enough to say hi, hello, how are you and goodbye :-). Those were the dark days for our fellow kababayan's who really work hard and paid just enough to send money to their loved ones.

Fast-forward to year 2000, The Saudi Telecoms started laying out plans to give internet services for landline users although high speed access like leased lines and sattelite access are already available, only rich saudis and companies can avail of such services. This was the time when Electronic Mails (Email) was the best way to send messages and greetings via internet with the likes of yahoo mail, hotmail among others getting the attention of our kababayans.

Now, with the voice/chat capability of softwares like yahoo messenger, msn messenger, skype, googletalk and others, All we have to do is go to the nearest internet cafe (if we dont have one at home) and ask our love ones in the philippines to do the same (I used to ask my wife to go to the expressions internet cafe in baliuag) and enjoy talking and seeing each other using webcam with out any time limit.

Technology really advances very fast and they always give us so much benefit, Overseas Filipino Workers (TFC, Internet, GSM/SMS) but they can also give us so much memories, be it happy or lonely.
I was once lonely when it was in the internet email that i received 6 years ago, when my father died. But it was also in the internet chat when my wife told me that we will be having a new child ( Off course i am the father :), I was never been happy ....