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Skype is one of the world's greatest inventions. I use it almost daily to connect with the people I care about when I'm away shooting. It makes the distance so much more bearable and I actually feel like I'm in the same room as my loved ones.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.

Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.