Stay Connected

It is important to stay close to family and friends in retirement. There are various ways to stay connected but the easiest is to use the different social media platforms that are available.

This page is dedicated to different ways to stay connected with your family and your friends. Some of us grew up in an era with less technology and this page provides you with important links and tutorial videos on how to register and use different social media accounts to stay in touch with your loved ones.

Should you have great tips for how to stay in touch with family and friends abroad and wish to share that with fellow pensioners on this website, please feel free to let us know. Should you wish to contribute to this website, please click here to find out how you can send your articles for consideration.

A number of pensioners have families in other areas and even countries.  The social media platforms below can offer avenues for keeping in touch with those people.

	What is it used for?	Video of how to use it?	Document of how to use it?
	Facebook connects families and friends, you can post text and videos	Click here for a video on how to register on and use Facebook	Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to register a Facebook account
	On Instagram you can post limited text, it was designed mainly for photos	Click here for a video on how to register on and use Instagram	Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to register an Instagram account
	twitter is for short sentences of usually 148 characters or less	Click here for a video on how to register a Twitter account	Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to register a Twitter account
	TikTok is mainly for short videos	Click here for a video on how to register on and use TikTok	Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to register a TikTok account
	WhatsApp is mainly for chatting, voice calls, voice recordings and sharing photos and links	Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to create a WhatsApp account	Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to create a WhatsApp account