I’ve used services such as Mailinator in the past to get a temporary, disposable e-mail address when I didn’t want to give out my actual e-mail address. But what about when you don’t want to give out your phone nubmer? Well, Craigsnumber is a service that will give you a phone nubmer that automatically forwards to your real phone number and expires after either one hour, day or week (your choice).
Why use a service such as this. One suggestion is when you’re trying to sell or give away something on Craig’s List and you don’t want people calling you after the item is long gone. This is probably something I’ll be doing in the next two months in preparation for my move to NE, so I’m thinking I’ll give it a try. I’ll report the results when I have them.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Disposable phone numbers”
William Gibson gets closer. Now for a disposable phone good for for 30 minutes – Tokyo to LA. (“All Tomorrow’s Parties”? I forget)
William Gibson gets closer. Now for a disposable phone good for for 30 minutes – Tokyo to LA. (“All Tomorrow’s Parties”? I forget)