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With a text message: text messages only take a few minutes to send, so if you don't text your partner often, why not send them a text message?

短信：发个短信只需要短短几秒钟，如果你不常给你的爱人发短信，为什么不试一下呢？

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It doesn't take long to send an email or a LinkedIn or Facebook message just to say hello, even if you don't see your contacts very often - or at all.

即使你没有经常看到你关系网内的朋友，或根本没见过，但是给他们发封邮件，或者在LinkedIn和Facebook等网站上发封站内短信问候一下并不需要花很多时间。

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These items are often used by their owners to send a very specific message.

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Often when that happens, someone from the company will send a private message to that person.

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