How to Make New Penpals Around the World

The process of developing and maintaining a penpal relationship has changed as email and social networking have created new options for meeting penpals Many people, both children and adults, benefit from a penpal relationship. Exchanging information about different cultures and lifestyles allows penpals to widen their horizons and learn new information. Whether you want to meet a penpal from a distant land or from your own country, you can access a variety of resources to locate individuals who wish to begin a penpal correspondence with you.

Instructions

Penpals

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  Use the online tools available through a penpal website. These websites connect potential pen pals. Individuals who want to meet a penpal register through these websites and receive email contact information for suggested penpals. Penpal Gate, Interpals and Penpal World match people throughout the world who wish to start a penpal relationship.

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  Establish your own personal profile by submitting the information that the website requires. Submit information about your interests, hobbies, sex and age. If you intend to establish a penpal relationship with someone by corresponding in a foreign language or with someone who lives in a foreign country, include that information in your profile.

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  Review the list of suggested penpals that the site sends you. Select a penpal and begin writing.

Military Penpals

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  Establish a penpal relationship with an individual serving in the military. Contact Military Penpals, Milpals or EmailOurMilitary to locate a serviceperson who wants to begin a penpal correspondence with a civilian penpal.

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  Register with a service that connects civilian penpals with people serving in the military. Each site requires that you provide some general personal information before they make the penpal connection between you and a soldier. The sites then provide you with a soldier's snail mail or email address.

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  Review any military rules or regulations listed on the site. Before you begin a penpal relationship with a member of the military you must understand the types of regulations under which soldiers operate when they receive or write letters and emails.

Networking

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  Use networking tools to locate people who express interest in beginning a penpal correspondence. Post a notice on a social network site to alert your friends to your interest in finding a penpal. Ask friends to suggest names of potential penpals.

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  Access addresses, both email and snail mail, that you receive from your contacts and friends.

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  Write to your friends' contacts to ascertain if they would like to begin a penpal correspondence. Write to them a few times to ensure that they would serve as a good penpal for you.