In todays environment, if you are not on top of your email, you may be missing a lot of important information. All day long, notifications are flying through our emails from Facebook to event cancellations. The time where phone calls were made and voicemails were left has drifted to the wayside in turn for email and texting.
If you are someone who doesn't have a super high-tech smartphone with email and work on a computer where you can check your email constantly, you may feel left behind and out of touch. If, like millions of other people, you do have text messaging you DO have a way to receive your emails, instantly.
Technically speaking, text messaging can be used like a simple email client and for most of us, which may be all we need. Instead of providing your email address next time, maybe instead you could provide your phone # and the domain of your mobile carrier where emails can be sent which will in turn be sent to you as a text message
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You can find a complete list of the different carriers email domains
here.
1 - text messaging has basic email capabilities so don't expect to be able to read lenghtly HTML message with graphics and sound.
2 - text messaging may require additional charges for your mobile plan, please check prior to using this feature.