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I'd like to use Google Voice to send messages from my to my mother's e-mail address, since she doesn't have a cell phone.
Google Voice won't allow me to send a message to an e-mail address.
How do I send a message to an e-mail address using Google Voice?
2Could you explain why you don't want to just send emails? – Alan Shutko – 2012-10-17T16:33:20.300
For the same reason Twitter is more popular than Wordpress, and iMessage/googlechat is more popular than e-mail, and why young people text more than they e-mail. The constraint of a character limit decreases perceived effort. With e-mails, (1) I feel like it will be more work and I avoid doing it, and (2) the other person expects a more effort and more length. Text messaging is a more natural format for casually chatting back and forth. Empirically, I've observed that I text my dad almost daily, and rarely send e-mails to my mom simply because it's more mental effort. – incandescentman – 2012-10-17T16:51:09.670