Dear Priscilla,
Living in another place or another country ,that is far from our family ,relatives and friends is too difficult, that's why we need a very reliable communications to connect with them.
Yes, of course, I always talk and communicate with them everyday and regularly.
I always use FB Messenger to connect with my family. It is the best.It has a camera that I can see clearly my family.
To talk to my friends, I use IMO,wattsapp and Viber.
Sometimes I use my phone to call my family if it is emergency only coz phone to phone is very very very expensive.
Sometimes, I use email if I wanted to say something that is very important and to express more my feelings and emotions.
All that I mentioned are only few ways on how to connect to your family and loved ones.There are other ways that you can use and you can search in the internet.Whatever it is, as long as we are comfortable of using any of this forms of communications, then, it is better and good for us.
My best regards to all the staff and members of this famous site.
Pieces