Living overseas today is (I imagine) much easier than it was even five or ten years ago. With the rapid increase in communication technology (email, Facebook, Skype, etc.) it is so easy to stay in touch with family and friends. The grandparents can actually watch the boys growing up – live on Skype, instead of pictures that are months old by the time they reach them. We can hop online and adjust our finances using online banking. And through Facebook we’re able to keep up with friendships we probably would have let die as we left the country.
These technologies can be great.
But seriously. Getting spam-called while living abroad? That’s just laugh-out-loud stupid and funny all at the same time. We set up a local Skype number that rings our PC abroad. That way friends and family can easily get a hold of us without having to do anything outside the norm. They just pick up the phone and there we are, almost as though we’re just down the street.
This morning Skype popped up and started ringing. This is unusual because we generally schedule the calls that we have and so we’re rarely expecting someone to call. I hit “accept call” and I hear that familiar “click” setting off my spam-call alert. Then came the familiar recorded voice as some computer tried to sell me something. We could get a free night’s stay at a hotel and two free plane tickets to anywhere we want to go. Man, if only I hadn’t of… oops, I hung up. Too bad. Maybe the “free” plane tickets would have been international. I guess now we’ll never know.
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