Who Knew?On Google Voice
I’ve been essentially treating it as a work/public number: handing that shit out on the Internet (it’s 617.383.9177, if anyone was wondering) like it’s my email address. No matter how sketchy the Craigslist posting, if it sounds like a freelance job I’m interested in taking, I hand the number out. I can always mark the caller as spam or have them go straight to voicemail every time if something happens. No need to notify everyone else that my number’s changed - I agree that would be obnoxious.I’m not going to even think about searching for an invite to Google Voice until these two things happen:
- I can keep my own number
- It’s iPhone compatible
I’m not usually an early adopter anyway; I let the early adopters work out the kinks and then I hop on the bus. Here’s my thing though. What about the people that have my number and somehow might use it down the line, but that I have no need to talk to right now? I’m gonna call them and let them know I have a new number, just in case they need to call me? Oh well I can integrate people in as it goes along, sure. WRONG. You think I’m going to use the regular phone number half the time and another phone number the other half of the time
Ironic Sans created these Google Voice speed-dial bookmarklets. Don’t have an iPhone, but many I’ve heard from have said the solution works really well.
