Why would anyone want to send free SMS text messages through a website? What’s wrong with tapping, tapping, tapping your message on your mobile phone (or cell phone) and just hitting send when you’re done? Why would someone need to go online, just to send a text message?
If you have these questions about SMS text messaging, this short article is for you.
So why would anyone want to send free sms through a website? (Stop me, if I’m going too fast!)
Free SMS is, ahem, free.
It’s fast: It’s much faster to type messages using a keyboard than to tap on a small keyboard. Even with predictive texting (or predoc tixting, as I like to call it!), typing a text on your cell phone takes too long.
You can also queue your messages and send them later.
You can send messages to mobile phone users wherever they live in the world.
You can trick your friends and send them an anonymous text message online. (However, online sms messages can almost always be traced, so I don’t recommend sending abusive messages, and that’s not good, right!)
Again, free sms is free. Sending text messages can often cost you 12p or 10p or 10c when using your cell phone. And if you have a free texting plan, does it really cover unlimited texting to anywhere in the world?
You can receive messages on your cell phone or on your computer when you use a free SMS text messaging service.
You can use more than one free sms service (especially if you live in UK or US) and you almost never run out of free sms credits.
Well, what’s wrong with sending free sms through a website? There must be some downsides, surely. After all, you don’t get anything for free these days. (Wow, you’re a suspicious guy!)
Well, not all free sms services are fast. Not all services allow you to receive messages on your cell phone (or on your PC). And not all free texting sites work.
And some free sms services aren’t even free, they just claim to be. People are sometimes charged to receive a message, and sometimes charged to send it, through sneaky subscription charges hidden in tiny terms and conditions.
However, most of the free sms sites that have been around for a while “do what they say on the tin”; that is, they offer free, fast and easy to write SMS text messages. And as such, these sites are some of the most beloved gifts on the web.
And even sms sites that charge you, like ipipi, allow you to quickly send sms almost anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost of sending text messages from your mobile or cell phone.
So why use free sms text messaging sites?
Well, er, it’s free.
It’s faster: Think typing instead of fumbling with your cell phone’s keypad.
It’s worldwide: think of all your friends who don’t live in the same country as you.
Above all, think that free sms are free.