Who says long distance doesn't work?

I just got done having a conversation with my girlfriend. Her boyfriend, whom she met in Africa and now lives in his home country of Switzerland, and her are trying to maintain a long-distance relationship. Ten years ago, the phone bills would have been extraordinary and I would have not given her more than a few weeks of trying to maintain the expense. But thanks to the wonders of technology, she and he talk about every other night on the phone FOR FREE! She said that he found some free website where you can sign up and then talk to someone completely on the other side of the world for free. She couldn't remember the site because her wonderful boyfriend and set it up. But basically, are you hearing this??? Free talking and text messaging, ya heard!

I have another girlfriend who recently moved away from her boyfriend but is trying to also maintain the relationship. I, the skeptic, had little faith that they would stay together. But seven months after she moved, they are still going strong. Their secret is IChat (I think that's what it's called). Every night, they sit down at their computer and have FACE TO FACE conversations with each other, FOR FREE!

So, minus the desire for being able to touch a significant other, this whole long-distance computer-aided relationship idea seems to be working for many. Now all I have to do is find someone who lives far away and then start my own long-distance relationship. This would be simply to test this idea.