Using Text Messaging
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What Is Text Messaging in Yahoo! Mail?
Email and chatting are great when you want to communicate with friends on computers. Now with Yahoo! Mail’s text messaging feature, you can also reach out to friends and family through their SMS-enabled mobile devices, without having to use a separate text messaging application.
You know the kind of situation. You’re at the office and your teenager and her cell phone are out there somewhere. You need to know what she’s up to, but you don’t really want all your cubicle neighbors to listen in on a phone conversation. You can simply sit at your computer, send a text message to your child using Yahoo! Mail, and receive an immediate response.
So, let’s just repeat the highlights and get you texting!
- Text messaging lets you communicate with your friends in real time so that you receive instant replies.
- Use text messaging to communicate with anyone who has an SMS-enabled mobile phone or other communications device.
- Use Yahoo! Mail text messaging without downloading additional software.
Notes: Wireless carriers may charge your friends fees for receiving and sending text messages. But Yahoo! Mail users are not charged for sending or receiving text messages in Yahoo! Mail—for you, it’s free!
What’s Next
All you have to do to start text messaging is select the SMS option.
Words to Know
- Mobile device: a wireless communication device for exchanging voice, text, and/or graphic information; includes pagers, mobile phones, web phones, pagers, two-way pagers, PDAs, and Internet appliances.
- SMS: abbreviation for "short message service", which is another name for text messaging.
- Mobile text messaging: sending and receiving written messages on a variety of devices via "short message service" (SMS).