My children, you know that every now and then I like to treat you with helpful hints and tips that will make your lives easier.

We’ve already had that conversation about how we don’t make phone calls unless absolutely necessary, right? We text first. Okay? Okay.

But some of you came to me recently, with palms outstretched and contrite hearts, expressing your immense pain at not being able to text at work without alerting the boss to a lack of productivity. Fingers on keyboards was all that mattered. Others still bemoaned the irksome cost of texting given the generally uncompetitive rates offered by our cellular network operaters.

While, under no circumstances do I condone these evils called “work” and “peak smses”, I understand that we have to make the best of a bad situation. So I did a little soul (and Google) searching, and I’ve found out more about this delicious little service called FSMS.co.za, which you might have seen featured in the banners of this very website.

in English, it translates to FREE SMS.co.za.

But all YOU have to remember is FSMS.co.za

Send and Receive SMSs for FREE!!
FSMS.CO.ZA

It’s okay, really, you can start smiling a little now. But not too much, you haven’t read the rest.

And get this, you can send smses for free. See what they did with their name there? It’s kind of like how I do my best to bring the VIBE to you, so I call myself 2oceansvibe, and they give you free smses, so they call themselves FREE sms. I think The Marketer calls that kind of thing, “synergy”.

But back to the meat of the issue: How do you get up and running with free smses?

Step one, cruise over to fsms.co.za, and complete the registration process. You’re all big boys and girls, so you shouldn’t struggle with that too much.

Once that’s done, you’re pretty much ready to fire off multitudes of free smses. But if you’re like me, you’ll have your contacts saved in a CSV file.

Stay with me now.

Upload the CSV to your profile on fsms.co.za, and your contacts are loaded faster than you can say “concatenated text message”.

But you know, not everyone’s got a handle on their gear, so please, by all means, add your contacts manually, one by one. Or don’t add them at all, just punch in the destination number whenever you send an sms. Whatever floats your trillion dollar yacht.

FREE SMS ONLINE!
Easiest way to make money is not to spend it!

Naturally your number is tacked on to the end of the sms, so your buddies know who’s text-bombing them.

And I know that some of you naughties like hanging out on the Facebook during office hours. That’s OK. You can send free smses from Facebook, using the FSMS Facebook App. Communication, simplified. Boom.

But most promising of all is that you can actually take this service mobile. FSMS.co.za is available on your mobile via wap, but a little blue bird tells me they’ve developed iPhone, Android and Java apps! Very naughty!

I hear Floyd Shivambu’s cell number is 082 819 9474. Get cracking, beautiful babies.

On second thought, only send Floyd a message if you’re his friend. I mean what I say and you know what I mean.