At the moment technology is helping me to keep in daily contact with the man I love and who is 3000 miles away. The internet means that we can exchange daily e-mails and talk to each other on Messenger and that makes being apart easier to manage.

Sometimes the system gets slow or makes it difficult to understand what the other is saying but, when a letter can take a week or more to travel that distance, I would say that technology is very useful to me right now.

Having said that I love concerts and singarounds, where there is audience participation and must admit that I get more from the music that way than just listening to cds.

I'd say horses for courses on this one.