In this update video, we're going to be talking about a couple options when it comes to free text apps.
Now, the use case for this will be things like where we need a telephone number where we can send or
receive text and we don't want it go into our real phone number.
A great use case for this is things like, well, our sockpuppet accounts, things that we don't want
to tie back to our real telephone numbers, our real identities and whatnot.
So there's a couple of different options out there for this.
One is text free.
Now, if you looked at the videos earlier, text free was one I had in here and I'm going to keep it
in here.
However, things change a little bit since the last time I recorded a video for this.
So one of the issues with text free is and it's a cool app, it works for iOS, it'll work for Android
and you can use it on the phone.
You can find it over at text Free Us and it is a free app.
And of course we can send text messages and receive text messages to people.
And when you sign up for it, you could you pick a phone number.
But one of the options that that came up after a while and here's the telephone numbers that you could
pick, for example, this is a area code that I that I let it select for me.
You select your number and you select and you can grab it and potentially get your phone number.
Now, one of the issues is it does ask for a telephone number to verify.
Now, it looks like if you use Gmail, there is a Gmail signup option.
So if I click on sign up here, there's a sign up with Facebook or sign up with Google, you can use
those options.
And if you use those options again, since you will most likely be using this for a sock puppet account,
I would recommend create a brand new Gmail identity or a brand new Facebook identity to create that
account.
Otherwise, you can go ahead in here, choose your username, choose a password and choose the email.
And again, even if you use this option, make sure it's a sock puppet email and a unique password and
unique username.
You don't want any of this tying back to you.
But again, if you use Google or Facebook, it seems like it doesn't ask you for a telephone number.
However, if you go through this route and you manually enter a different email address and different
username and whatnot, it's going to ask for a telephone number verification.
So you will be required to have a telephone number.
Now the caveat to this is if we use something like pseudo and we do cover this in the course later.
You could use my pseudo, which is an iOS app or a Google app and you can go for the free tier or the
paid tier.
You could use a pseudo number or you should be able to use other services like Burner to feed that phone
number into text, free to verify that phone number and then you'll get your account.
Now other options are we could do text.
Now.
And Textnow is another free service, just like text free.
And it's also available for Web Google or iOS and we can do sign up.
It doesn't require a credit card, which is great.
And we can sign up with the Apple account.
A Google account or Facebook account is going to operate the same way.
So this one, you obviously need either a Facebook account or a Google account or an Apple account.
You can use that.
Again, use a Sockpuppet account, log in, grab your phone number, and then we can start texting.
And again, these are some pretty good options if you need to send and receive text and you don't want
to use your real phone number.
And of course, we always use pseudo, but when it asks for that telephone verification for things like
text free, remember you could use something like my pseudo or burner or any number of other temporary
phone number systems to get around that.
And again, this was text free pseudo and and text.
Now services.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.