Do you ever say you will keep in touch with someone?

@jugsjugs (12967)
October 24, 2009 7:32pm CST
I met up with a few people a while back and we said that we would keep in touch with each other but we never have,have you even been in this situation,what did you do?
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
25 Oct 09
I never say it unless I mean it, then I really do make an effort to keep in touch with that person. Sometimes they don't have much interest so I let it go. Sometimes people say they want to keep in touch but after you're gone they get busy and forget.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
25 Oct 09
I have said that I would "keep in touch" with people when I was in school, but that was just something to write in a yearbook. I never really kept in touch with anyone but close friends. I haven't said that recently, and to be honest I hardly said that to begin with. I think that If I wanted to keep in touch with someone but found it hard to do over the phone, I'd write them or ask them if they had a myspace of facebook as I have both of those.
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• Philippines
11 Nov 09
after we met up in a date with my close friends I say that line. We always say keep in touch for me it means I still update or share what will happen to me with my friends. For sure when we are having a date I share a story about myself and keeping in touch means I still update them of what I had started to begin with them. It is either saying hello or asking them how is their day from time to time. But this should not be considered as for everyday , but atleast a week you send them a message or call them, that is what keeping in touch even both of you did not see each other a week or a month.
• Philippines
11 Nov 09
after we met up in a date with my close friends I say that line. We always say keep in touch for me it means I still update or share what will happen to me with my friends. For sure when we are having a date I share a story about myself and keeping in touch means I still update them of what I had started to begin with them. It is either saying hello or asking them how is their day from time to time. But this should not be considered as for everyday , but atleast a week you send them a message or call them, that is what keeping in touch even both of you did not see each other a week or a month.
@doormouse (4599)
25 Oct 09
a few years ago when i moved out of town i said i'd keep in touch with the neighbours,but never did,don't know why,just one of those things
@GoGirl149 (152)
• Canada
25 Oct 09
I remember when I left my last job, everyone told me to keep in touch. Well, about a month later I wrote an email and sent it to about twenty people giving them an update on my life. I asked them to write back ... only two people wrote back, and it was just to say that it was nice to hear from me, they didn't write anything about themselves or ask about me. I guess life goes on, and though I'm not a part of their lives anymore, someone else has taken my place. Thinking back, I know I've done the same thing to other people that used to be in my life.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
25 Oct 09
I do not really keep in touch with very many people except family. I have certain friends I have tried to keep in touch with, but I do not hear back from them. Eventually I remind myself that I have had the same address over twenty years and the same phone over thirty years and if they want to find me and talk to me they will. I feel I am not the only one who needs to make an effort.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
25 Oct 09
Hi jugsjugs, sometimes we would meet new people with common interests in certain occasions. After having matey chitchat, it seems that we still have a lot to share with! We then will promise each other to keep in touch later on. But every often due to many undesirable situation and reason we still couldn't keep in touch with each other soon. As time goes by and we never realize that this has happened long ago To avoid this it's better for us to jot down the saying on the calendar with conspicuous sign. Try our best to carry out our saying. Actually in this modern world it's quite easy to keep in touch with someone as long as we have the phone no and email address of each other Have a nice day and happy posting
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
25 Oct 09
I have had people tell me they will keep in touch with me also but most of them don't. I will keep in touch with someone if I tell them I will though. That is the polite thing to do.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
25 Oct 09
I am really awful about staying in touch with peope who do not have the internet connectivity. I hope they don't think I don't like them, but really, in this day and age it is so hard to have to communicate any other way.
@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
25 Oct 09
well I moved from Mass when I was 10 an my friend Donna told me to keep in touch well 33 years later we still keep in touch she is mass an I am in sc but we call each other an we write to each other an thank god for the internet
@celticeagle (189820)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Oct 09
When I say it I really mean and I do try to keep in touch. I think for alot of people it is meant like the old phrase used in high society where they say: "Let's do lunch!" Or something to that degree. Just another way of ending the conversation and moving on with their day/life.
• United States
25 Oct 09
I have both told someone that as well as been told that a bunch of times. There are times when I really do mean to keep in touch and life just gets too hectic to do and then there are times when I am just sating that to be nice and I really dont want to keep in touch but cant find it in myself to be mean at that moment. I guess that this also goes both ways with people saying they will keep in touch with me, there are times when I am glad they haven't but there is also times when I am glad that they haven't kept in touch.
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Oct 09
This reminds me of the things people wrote in yearbooks when I was in school. We all wrote K.I.T (keep in touch) and all that mushy stuff, but most of us didn't really keep in touch. Sadly it's one of those things that people just say and may mean it at the time . . . but as time passes, the thought just disappears.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
25 Oct 09
hi jugsjugs oh yes when we thought we were moving to Antioch Ca. my diabetes support group were all gung ho, they would keep in close touch, but the deal fell through, we became homeless and my son had to put me in this retirement center so I would have a place to live while he got into a gov. sponsored apartment with three other guys all of whom are unemployed. now I have not see n hide nor hair of my so called friends and we are still here in the same Ca county.so why have they not called or come to see me, they know where I am too. I have not done anything as I really do not know what to do. if they cared at all surely in 11 months they would have come to see me?
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
25 Oct 09
Hey jugs! I am so sorry to say that there are people that I have said that I would keep in touch with that I just haven't been able to! And it isn't that I don't want to because I really do! In the past few months I have heard from two people that I was really good friends with in my past and one in particular I don't live that far from and really want to get in touch with and see her, but I keep putting it off because things are just not going well in my life and I just don't know what to say to her and how I am going to make an appointment to meet up with her! My apartment isn't looking as well as I would want it to to have company and I am having all types of problems right now! I know that she probably thinks that I don't want to talk to her or see her but that's not true. I know that I should call her and at least explain this to her, but I am so embarrassed. We were very close friends at one time and I feel so stupid!