WEBVTT 00:00.020 --> 00:07.070 In this update video, we're going to be talking about a couple options when it comes to free text apps. 00:07.160 --> 00:14.210 Now, the use case for this will be things like where we need a telephone number where we can send or 00:14.210 --> 00:17.780 receive text and we don't want it go into our real phone number. 00:18.530 --> 00:24.830 A great use case for this is things like, well, our sockpuppet accounts, things that we don't want 00:24.830 --> 00:29.570 to tie back to our real telephone numbers, our real identities and whatnot. 00:30.200 --> 00:33.350 So there's a couple of different options out there for this. 00:33.380 --> 00:35.480 One is text free. 00:35.510 --> 00:41.720 Now, if you looked at the videos earlier, text free was one I had in here and I'm going to keep it 00:41.720 --> 00:42.410 in here. 00:42.560 --> 00:47.880 However, things change a little bit since the last time I recorded a video for this. 00:47.900 --> 00:55.520 So one of the issues with text free is and it's a cool app, it works for iOS, it'll work for Android 00:55.520 --> 00:57.110 and you can use it on the phone. 00:57.150 --> 01:02.040 You can find it over at text Free Us and it is a free app. 01:02.720 --> 01:07.090 And of course we can send text messages and receive text messages to people. 01:07.100 --> 01:12.280 And when you sign up for it, you could you pick a phone number. 01:12.290 --> 01:16.940 But one of the options that that came up after a while and here's the telephone numbers that you could 01:16.940 --> 01:23.060 pick, for example, this is a area code that I that I let it select for me. 01:23.090 --> 01:31.950 You select your number and you select and you can grab it and potentially get your phone number. 01:31.970 --> 01:37.130 Now, one of the issues is it does ask for a telephone number to verify. 01:37.760 --> 01:43.220 Now, it looks like if you use Gmail, there is a Gmail signup option. 01:43.220 --> 01:49.790 So if I click on sign up here, there's a sign up with Facebook or sign up with Google, you can use 01:49.790 --> 01:51.020 those options. 01:51.020 --> 01:57.320 And if you use those options again, since you will most likely be using this for a sock puppet account, 01:57.320 --> 02:04.080 I would recommend create a brand new Gmail identity or a brand new Facebook identity to create that 02:04.080 --> 02:04.800 account. 02:05.790 --> 02:11.910 Otherwise, you can go ahead in here, choose your username, choose a password and choose the email. 02:11.910 --> 02:19.230 And again, even if you use this option, make sure it's a sock puppet email and a unique password and 02:19.230 --> 02:20.490 unique username. 02:20.490 --> 02:23.190 You don't want any of this tying back to you. 02:23.790 --> 02:29.800 But again, if you use Google or Facebook, it seems like it doesn't ask you for a telephone number. 02:29.820 --> 02:34.590 However, if you go through this route and you manually enter a different email address and different 02:34.590 --> 02:40.200 username and whatnot, it's going to ask for a telephone number verification. 02:40.500 --> 02:43.800 So you will be required to have a telephone number. 02:44.070 --> 02:51.270 Now the caveat to this is if we use something like pseudo and we do cover this in the course later. 02:52.440 --> 03:00.180 You could use my pseudo, which is an iOS app or a Google app and you can go for the free tier or the 03:00.210 --> 03:00.750 paid tier. 03:00.780 --> 03:10.200 You could use a pseudo number or you should be able to use other services like Burner to feed that phone 03:10.200 --> 03:15.240 number into text, free to verify that phone number and then you'll get your account. 03:15.630 --> 03:18.810 Now other options are we could do text. 03:18.840 --> 03:19.470 Now. 03:20.550 --> 03:25.230 And Textnow is another free service, just like text free. 03:25.350 --> 03:32.110 And it's also available for Web Google or iOS and we can do sign up. 03:32.130 --> 03:34.590 It doesn't require a credit card, which is great. 03:34.860 --> 03:36.570 And we can sign up with the Apple account. 03:36.600 --> 03:39.960 A Google account or Facebook account is going to operate the same way. 03:41.270 --> 03:46.760 So this one, you obviously need either a Facebook account or a Google account or an Apple account. 03:46.790 --> 03:48.020 You can use that. 03:49.370 --> 03:55.700 Again, use a Sockpuppet account, log in, grab your phone number, and then we can start texting. 03:55.880 --> 04:01.730 And again, these are some pretty good options if you need to send and receive text and you don't want 04:01.730 --> 04:03.380 to use your real phone number. 04:03.590 --> 04:10.190 And of course, we always use pseudo, but when it asks for that telephone verification for things like 04:10.220 --> 04:19.670 text free, remember you could use something like my pseudo or burner or any number of other temporary 04:19.670 --> 04:22.850 phone number systems to get around that. 04:23.030 --> 04:28.370 And again, this was text free pseudo and and text. 04:28.400 --> 04:29.630 Now services. 04:29.630 --> 04:30.590 Thank you for watching. 04:30.590 --> 04:31.550 I'll see you in the next video.