I've had my mobile for less than a year but already love text messaging... Problem is it gets expensive after a while so I looked at the alternatives. I have found a number of free services on the internet but they all seem a bit dodgy.
Lycos sometimes sends, sometimes doesn't, sometimes sends things 5 times over. I just don't trust it. You have to have an account with virginstudent.com and every time I logged in my computer seemed to crash. I've found a few others but they all seem to have some form of problem.
I've finally found one, which seems to work. It's www.textmessenger.com. You have to have an account with them but it's quick to log in. Once logged in you don't have to read the terms and conditions every time you wish to send a text message, you just click send, type your message, get a preview (good check to see if you've gone over the word limit), go back and edit your message and finally, when you're happy click send and confirm. It's that easy.
Other bonuses are that you can store numbers in an address book. I just add them as and when I use them. It was really useful the day I forgot my phone. If anyone accidentally replies to the text message it goes into an inbox for you.... so you can use it even if you don't have a mobile phone. And you can have a signature at the end including your number!
I haven't ever had a problem with it, every time I've sent a message it's gone, fairly quickly and it's never sent them 5 times over like other services do.
There is one tiny restriction...due to misuse of the site you can't send any more than 3 messages to any single number per day, but I rarely send more than 3 text messages in a day to one person.
It's just so easy!
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