Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Text or Email?

Everybody’s texting these days, me too. Texting has quickly become a way of life. Even my hairdresser now texts me to confirm my appointment rather than calling me and all I have to do is text back “YES”. I love it!

Texting is convenient, quick and forces you to get the point across in as few words as possible. However, I’m a much faster “typer” than I am a “texter”; so when I came upon some information in Real Simple Magazine a few months ago I was thrilled. Did you know that you can text messages from your email? First, you have to know the carrier of the person you want to text. Next when you create the email, in the address line type the cell phone number before the address for the carrier, (for example: 1234567@txt.att.net). It's as simple as that.

Here are the addresses for the top carriers:
AT&T: @txt.att.net
Sprint: @messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: @tmomail.net
Verizon Wireless: @vtext.com

Now all you have to do ask your clients or friends for their phone carrier and save it as a secondary email address in your contacts. I tested it and indeed it works. So you decide - text, email or both. You now have options.

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