Login Subscribe Comments ContactMe AboutMe Home

Google Voice: A Dater’s Dream!

While I am still quite new to the “Dating” scene, I’ve spent the past few months communicating with potential Dates through online dating. One thing I have noticed is that not everyone is at the same level when it comes to communication.  There are plenty of us who are comfortable socializing via chat and email, but there are also many who despite their participation on the sites, just aren’t as savvy in those areas of communication.

I’ve met a great deal of guys (briefly) who want to move right to voice communication and request my phone number in the 1st 3 message exchanges. Now, that might be fine for some, but I guess I am a little weary about giving out my actual phone number out. You really never know what the other party’s calling habits are and I’m limited to the times when I actually want to sit on the phone and chat with someone. My Digital ADD doesn’t help much either LOL.

So you can imagine how happy I was when Google Voice was released! I didn’t pay much attention at first, despite getting two early invites. Then as I saw it pop-up more and more in my Blogosphere I dug one of the invites out of my Gmail trash and signed up!

Let me just say that this application has already proved itself extremely useful in my dating life. I selected a local number which is linked to my account, then I forwarded the calls to my Cell. If you are on a Blackberry (like me)  or Android you can even get an App for your phone! Sorry iPhone, no such luck although I did hear if you are jail broken you can still get the app, but it’s no longer available on the Mobile Apps Page

The biggest benefits I’ve found are the controls – you have the ability to limit when calls are forwarded to your phone. I restrict calls from forwarding during my work day. Whenever someone calls and leaves me a voice mail I receive a transcript via SMS so I know right away if I missed anyone worth calling back.

When calls are forwarded, If the caller is in my address book it will display the caller’s information to me, but when I answer I am still given the choice to accept or deny the call! How great is that? Oh and there is a really great Gadget you can install on your iGoogle homepage too! It displays recent calls and allows you to send SMS from right within the page!

Did I mention you can Block callers? No more crazy (read: Horny) callers in the middle of the night! That’s certainly not all this awesome application has to offer though. Currently it’s “Invitation Only“, but I highly recommend requesting an invitation – it will make your dating life so much better!!

Read about all the features here!

or watch this video!

XOXO

PS. When you leave comments it gives me a warm fuzzy :)

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

Time Monday, August 3rd, 2009, 6:04 PM   |   CategoryDigitally Dating, Real Life  |  RssRSS feed |  CommentRespond  |  TrackbackTrackback

Tags:
  • Neil Ford

    Your wish is my command, have a warm fuzzy from me :)

    I’ve requested an invite for Google Voice, just waiting my turn. Good to hear such a positive report of the service.

    - Neil.

  • http://structuredthought.org AlexDeGruven

    You forgot one vital piece of information in your post:

    Your GVoice number!

    Also, if you want some serious entertainment from the GVoice end, follow GoogleVoiceNoise on Twitter. Great stuff.

    • TheDiva

      Alex – It’s under my Contact Info ;)

  • http://taiwanbrown.com taiwan brown

    wow, this is very smart!

  • http://www.the-broad-cast.com Kat

    I do not like the phone.

  • http://www.lynetteradio.com Lynette

    What happens when you call from your cell? Does your real number show up in their caller id? I seriously need to get a Google Voice account for my mom for the above mentioned reasons!

    • TheDiva

      Hey Lynette! You can make outgoing calls from you cell using the app (if installed) using you GV #, but I just tried to and it failed. :(

  • http://billcammack.com/ Bill Cammack

    The drag about giving out numbers is that it only takes giving it to ONE wrong person for you to feel like changing your number entirely. That's the best part about Google Voice. You don't give out your actual number so if you want to redirect someone to always go to an answering machine (or nowhere), you can do that and they're just plain gone! :D

    I use it for business applications because I can't 'afford' to be interrupted all day by people that want to talk to me for their own reasons. If someone calls me, they have a chance to leave a message and then Google Voice will text me on my REAL number with a transcription of what they said on the voicemail.

    Another good thing about it is that if you're using the app (I have a g1), you can make your outgoing calls seem like they're coming from your Google Voice number so you can still mask your number if you call someone back who hasn't made it to the preferred list yet. ;)

  • http://billcammack.com/ Bill Cammack

    The drag about giving out numbers is that it only takes giving it to ONE wrong person for you to feel like changing your number entirely. That's the best part about Google Voice. You don't give out your actual number so if you want to redirect someone to always go to an answering machine (or nowhere), you can do that and they're just plain gone! :D

    I use it for business applications because I can't 'afford' to be interrupted all day by people that want to talk to me for their own reasons. If someone calls me, they have a chance to leave a message and then Google Voice will text me on my REAL number with a transcription of what they said on the voicemail.

    Another good thing about it is that if you're using the app (I have a g1), you can make your outgoing calls seem like they're coming from your Google Voice number so you can still mask your number if you call someone back who hasn't made it to the preferred list yet. ;)

  • Pingback: Irrational Fear of the Phone | Digitally Diva

Array