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Dear Readers,

It all started with“Dear Diary”journals. Afterwards, I wrote longwinded handwritten letters to pen pals. Then at the risk of dating myself

(now, I'm really dating myself), emails became popular. Then mass emails turned into blogs and websites. Soon, it was all about ICQ, MSN,

Yahoo!, Hotmail, Skype, Live Messenger, Meebo, Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, Flickr, Tencent QQ, LinkedIn, iMessage, Wechat, Facebook, Twitter,

Weibo, Instagram, etc. (raise your hands if you noticed anything odd about that list of social networking and chat services.)

There are many books out there about social media just as there are books out there about learning English. With this book of emails, chats

and weibo messages, I aim to combine the two. In addition, I hope you get a little insight into my life as I lived it when I was traveling.

亲爱的读者们：

在最开始的时候，我都是写那种以“Dear Diary”开头的日记（假装我在和日记讲话）。后来，我开始手写信件给笔友。然后，我得冒着让你们发现我有多老的风险说（现在你们都发现我有多老了吧），email 开始流行了。大量的email 变成了博客、网站。又过了不久，大家都知道ICQ，MSN，Yahoo!，Hotmail，Skype，Live Messenger，Meebo，Orkut，Hi5，MySpace，Flickr，QQ，LinkedIn，iMessage，Wechat，Facebook，Twitter，微博、Instagram 等等（有没有注意到这长长一串社交网站和聊天软件的名字里有什么奇怪的地方啊？有的请举手）。

现在市面上跟社交网站有关的书有很多，差不多和学英文的书一样多。我打算在这本书里把这两个结合起来，里面有email、聊天内容和一些微博消息。我希望你可以从中了解我在旅游期间的生活。

What you read in this book are actual emails that I wrote to my friends and family. For better or for worse, this is how I saw the world in

my 20s. Looking back and reading these, I cringe, I giggle, I facepalm, and I reminisce. I loved to share my stories then and I continue to love to share my stories now.

I am a firm believer that we learn best through communication, through sharing, through story-telling. I wish I could write personal emails to all of you, or sit down with a coffee and just chat away, but then I'd really never get anything done! Haha. This book is the closest I

can get to engaging all of you in one-to-one conversations; moreover, I'll show you that learning English through a book doesn't have to feel like a formal English lesson.

I hope that through this book and the conversations within, you'llwalk away with a few more funny or inspiring stories and thoughts to tell

your friends. You'll be joining in on the conversations I have with my family and friends, learning how to use English in your day to day life,

interpreting and understanding both formal and casual use of the language within the contemporary setting of some familiar social networking platforms that have become such a huge part of our lives.

We share our experiences via email and on social networks because it's fun to do so. With this book, I want you to have just as much fun

learning English, and more importantly, I want you all to be able to share your stories, posts, and experiences with others in English!

你在这本书里面看到的，全部都是我写给朋友和家人的真实email。无论你觉得这是好还是不好都没关系，总之我在20 几岁的时候，就是像这样看世界。现在回头读这些email，我会尴尬到不行、会偷笑、会捂脸、会回想起很多往事。我以前就很喜欢和大家分享我的故事，现在仍爱和大家分享我的故事。

我深信学习的最好方法就实通、分享、讲故事。我也很想一对一写email 给你们或拿杯咖啡一起坐下来好好聊天，可是这样我就真的没空做其他的事啦！哈哈！既然不能真的和你一对一聊天，这本书就是我和你玫通的最好方法。另外，通过这本书我会让你看到书里学来的英文不一定都像正式英文课一样。

我希望你能通过这本书和里面的对话，得到更多好笑或有启发性的故事和想法，可以拿来和你的朋友聊。你会看到一些我和家人、朋友的对话。你可以学习怎么在日常生活中使用英文，也更知道怎么解读、了解正式和非正式的英文对话。尤其是现代社交网站那么发达，已经成为我们生活中的一部分啦！

我们用email 或社交网站来分享自己的经历，还不都是为了好玩？希望这本书让你会觉得学英文就是很好玩！更重要的是，我也希望你们看完这本书后，可以用英文和其他人分享你的故事、文章以及经历！

爱你们的

谢怡芬