FACEBOOK, the way to keep in touch with ALMOST everybody

It is amazing how technology can shortener distances.
10years ago we were just accepting Internet and its chats room as a possibility to communicate with friends and family, nowadays it is simply UNACCEPTEBLE not to have it at all.
My mum used to cry when my sister was away on her exchange student year (1999) because it wasn’t enough just to hear her on the phone, she wanted more, and now my mum cries when she sees our posted videos in Facebook. She keeps repeating “Facebook is amazing… this new technology is unbelievable”, while we laugh and record more videos for her!!..
I opened facebook under social pressure from a friend from Norway. We met in Belgium; we were both doing an exchange student year over there, we have kept in touch since. She told me that Facebook was “the future” , I have to admitted that I didn’t believe her, I didn’t use to be the type of girl that prefers to spend more time in front of a computer than hanging around, but anyway, if that was gonna make her happy I was not gonna think it twice.. I ended up opening Facebook, and not only that, finding friends “CLOSE FRIENDS” from all around the world on it.. GREAT!!.. so, since the day I opened Facebook I can't spend more than 1day without checking it.
I guess the reason is because I’m so far away from home, I mean, from my hometown, Facebook makes me feel closer to my friends and family over there, sharing pictures, videos and “drinks”, to at least celebrate that even though we are thousand miles away we talk and chat almost as frequently as we used to, and even to feel a little bit closer home.