Some reader of my blog told me today about a new website where it is possible to send short messages relatively simply and for free. As usual, I was looking for the terms in order to find a danger that the service is not free or the data will be sold to third parties. I found nothing that could confirm my fears. The owner of the site promises that the data will not be sold to third parties. However, you should know that the owner saves all the information, including IP address, telephone number and text message to prevent abuse.
The dispatch of a message works, albeit not exactly intuitive. There are two fields that need to be filled. They are called “recipient” and “Message”. After clicking on the button “send message” you will see a banner in pop-up window. Here you have to keep a little caution, because the advertising looks like input mask for sending of text messages and you might think that the procedure with the input should be repeated. This is not the case. The click on the banner leads to a page where you can send text messages for money. It would be better if you simply close the window with this advertisement. Now you need to confirm your wish to send a message by clicking on confirmation button. After that you will see a form where you should enter a number that should be calculated. For example if you see “14-7″ you should enter the 7 in the answer form. After you confirm the result of calculation you will finally get a button called “Send FreeSMS now”. After the pressing of it the text message will be finally sent. I admit that it looks a bit complicated in practice it works pretty fast.
I sent 2 text messages. Both messages were immediately delivered. Therefore, I believe that this site should be mentioned here.
Of course I can’t give any guarantee that this service will work as I described here, because I’m not an owner of it.