Top Five Sites for Free Text Messaging and the Top 5 Reasons to use them

5) Gizmosms.com - Costs money to send txt mssgs and you cannot receive response txts

4) Textforfree.net - does not offer the ability to receive txt mssgs and you have to know your friends service provider to send a text mssg

3) Txt2Day.com – does not offer the ability to receive txt mssgs, but seems like a reliable service and you do not need to know the service provider on the other end of the line

2) 811.com – does not offer the Ability to receive txt mssgs, but you do not need to know the service provider for your friends and you can send pictures, ring tones, audio & video messages, along with jokes and other sorts of friend spam.

1) TxtDrop.com –The site allows you to send text messages without knowing the service provider of the receiving number. Additionally if you download the widget you can receive response text messages to you e-mail. Lastly you can post one of their widgets in your MySpace or personal website so viewers/friends can send text messages to your phone.

So, whether these sites will be useful or not is up for debate. I personally have found it to be of great importance in my life. While online texting can also be done via e-mail I have a tendency to confuse which address I send it to and in the end they never go through. So here are some uses I have thought of, some personally inspired.

1) in the event of a painful class where texting is the only means for you to stay awake.
2) You leave your room/house without phone and have no means to text the lunch buddy that
you’ll be late/early/not showing up.
3) break your phone often and continuously have limited means of communication
4) While not personally inspired I have heard of instances of friends geting angry parental phone calls for exceeding texting limits
5) Lastly, free text messaging, think of all the change you’ll save

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Rbowen responded on 29 Jul 2008 at #

SMS sent via an email will become much more difficult to deliver and use in the very near future. There are multiple lawsuits pending requiring that the end-user be able to block all text messages not sent from a 10-digit phone number or via a short code. So the end-users that choose to block those unsolicited marketing text messages, will also block the messages from friends who use those technics or web-sites.
In addition the cell phone carriers are being pushed by the MMA(Mobile Marketing Association) to close those portals because their new Code of Conduct requires that the end-users be able to Opt-out from those sites directly from their phones.
A Congressman from Oregon is putting proposed legislation together that will make it illegal to send unsolicited text messages to the end-user via these and similar applications.