http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html?_r=1
Read this, then sign up for Twitter. You don't have to be a young kid growing up impoverished in Moldova. You can use Twitter to keep in touch with people you actually know, and you'll know things about them that will bring smiles to your face year after year.
A larger post will come. I need to work on some other project, then I'll come back to this.