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........if you just want to send text messages to your Skype contacts.
Except .... Skype won't accept my cellphone number, and when I complained they came back with some gobbledegook about NZ telecom not recognising alphanumeric characters ?
But... as we have a local NZ VOIP protocol competitor that is similar to Skype, i.e. free computer to computer ( providing your friend is also signed up with them, which few are 'cos they've never heard of it ) they do accept my cellphone number so I use them instead and type all my txt's on a keyboard instead of making a million errors pressing all those tiny keys on the phone - but then they don't use it, instead anybody "replying" to my txt. has their "reply" sent to the service, and they send me an e-mail on their website, so if I want to get an answer I have to find a computer and sign in to their website with the username and password that I can never remember etc. etc.
Actually it's not too bad, I never have to bother with any replies - they store up on the VOIP website until I bother to look at them when I get home. Makes life easier.
World's Gone Mad.
Just heard of an I.Q reducing pill, if you worry about everyone being dim and unintelligent, and not understanding you, just take a 50% IQ reducing pill, next morning stay in bed listening to rap music all day - and don't worry about a thing, you're as dim as everybody else. Therein lies the road to happiness !