Online Texting v SPAM
Dec0
The words online texting and SPAM really should not be spoken in the same sentence. However, while stumbling I found this article relating to SMS messaging being received when it is unwanted. It points the finger at Verizon and informs the reader how to opt out of receiving spammy SMS messaging.
At LookNoThumbs.com, a new online texting service, there is a policy where any of its users who are found to be SPAMMING will be removed from the service - immediately.
At this cool web-site, you can use online texting services functions to protect your privacy but still get those updates that are important or valuable to you. Their “Alerts and Subscriptions” service is where the sender creates an Alert with informative and useful messages and users then Subscribe anonymously to the Alert to receive the latest update when it becomes available from the sender. If the recipient gets tired of the updates it is a simple case of unsubscribing from that Alert. No questions asked.
For example, let’s say your favourite store has an alert published in LookNoThumbs.com. As a regular there you don’t want to miss their annual pre-Christmas sale. So you subscribe to their “Pre-Christmas Sale Alert” and when they send it out you immediately receive the text message informing you of the date and time of the sale. You are then first in line to snap up that last minute bargain - along with the other subscribers!
Online texting, and SMS messaging in general, is booming and many important, and fun, uses have been developed for this technology. Maybe the big communications corporates are selling out their users already but LookNoThumbs.com is providing an alternative, allowing privacy to be retained without losing out on new updates. Let’s keep the SPAMMERS out of online texting and SMS messaging alogether.
How Online Texting Is Spreading Seasonal Greetings
Dec0
Online texting has arrived! However, a new product at www.looknothumbs.com provides functionality that takes online texting further than before. In fact, it is so good that you can even automatically send your Christmas and New Year greetings without having to do it on the day.
www.looknothumbs.com provides a scheduling service that lets you set up your online texting messages in advance which allows you to relax, secure in the knowledge that your best wishes are being sent to all of your friends and family on the day at a time chosen by you.
Go on, check it out at www.looknothumbs.com and set up your schedule of your online texting messages. Make sure that you can reach out to those you love without the need to fiddle about with a mobile phone keypad while preparing Christmas lunch.
And here’s the great thing, once you are set up all online texting received from your looknothumbs account will, when received, appear to have come directly from your mobile phone.
Make sure you don’t forget anyone this Christmas and New Year. Make sure you have your scheduled online texting set up in www.looknothumbs.com.
Online texting is not just for Christmas … it’s for life! Remember to schedule your New Year greetings and next year’s family birthday wishes too.
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Life, Fatherhood and Online Texting
Dec0
Three seemingly unrelated topics - life, fatherhood and online texting -have never been far from my thoughts this week; in fact dealing with life and fatherhood just reminded me of the incident that got me interested in creative applicatons for online texting (like www.looknothumbs.com) in the first place.
Not many Februaries ago, five men in their late thirties to early forties got together in the Horseshoe Bar in Glasgow, Scotland for a quiet drink. This group grew up together not far from here, and some 18 years ago a gathering like this would have been an unremarkable, often twice-weekly occurrence. But life took its course, fatherhood consumed all our time for a while, people moved and regular meetings became impractical.
Such was this group’s dynamic that although we had all changed in appearance and had all been both treated and bitten by life’s experiences, this reunion was easy, natural, comfortable and thoroughly enjoyable – almost as if only weeks, not decades, had passed.
And so the witty banter and gentle teasing began after a few sips from the first pint, as it always will among male friends in Glasgow.
One of our group had stayed local, been extremely successful at work, and only thinning and receding hair qualified for comment among the other four. One had lived overseas and acclimatised to another lifestyle in various ways, including an expanded waistline – so the others claimed anyway – and loss of his Glasgow accent. But it was the oldest of the group who took the brunt of the fabled Glasgow ‘slagging’ that evening.
Here was a guy in his mid forties, with teenage children, who was completely phobic about sending mobile text messages. His children were texting constantly, including texts to him (he beamed as he proudly related this part). But he still protested that he didn’t see the point of texting because he could always phone someone.
I mulled this over for a while. My friend wasn’t the first person I’d come across who loves to receive a text message but refuses to send one. Fear of technology and specifically of ‘doing it wrong’ seems to crippling vast numbers of people over 40. (Scary – that includes me!) What is it about texting that makes people who are quite comfortable with email lash out against text messaging?
It dawned on me that what makes texting different, and unappealing, is that the method of entering a message requires special skill, with a steep learning curve to acquire it and constant practice to maintain it. What’s truly demoralising is that your learning investment investment is thrown away almost annually with every phone upgrade.
More than a decade into the text revolution, there is no universal set of instructions to cover every phone’s menus, multi-tap sequences and predictive text methods.
Is physically entering messages the only reason some people don’t like to text? Of course not, but it does seem to be the main one. Fortunately, with an online texting solution like www.looknothumbs.com, textphobia is a highly treatable condition.
LookNoThumbs (www.looknothumbs.com) is an easy to use website for business and personal online texting. It’s designed to compliment - not replace - your mobile phone and it makea texting MUCH easier. How? Simple – first, they replace the unfamiliar (mobile phone keypad and text entry systems) with the familiar – your computer’s keyboard and an email-like interface. Next, they present you with simple, flat-rate prepaid texts that can be shared with others and don’t expire. Finally, they’ve loaded the site with useful messaging features for all users that you’d normally expect to see only on a business or premium service.
LookNoThumbs is currently in Pilot as of December 2007, with registration by invitation only. But do register your interest to be sure of getting in early, because they’re currently sending out invitations every day. Check it out: www.looknothumbs.com
You’re probably wondering about my friend with the teenagers. Has he dropped the grudge against texting now? I honestly don’t know for sure, and I haven’t received a text from him yet. But being a true friend, I’ll be sending him an online texting voucher for www.looknothumbs.com this Christmas! Ho, Ho, Ho (LoL).
Happy Christmas!