It’s crazy … You can even find the address by a simple phone number.. Wonder what’s gonna come next ?

Essentially, they are addressing the issue of caller ID not showing the Google Voice number

http://bit.ly/14S7OX

Actually, Garry, I like your idea of giving new contacts your GV number. Not sure why, mentally, I was convinced that if I was going to use GV, I had to tell everyone to use my new number.

I just joined as a member. You go girl :0)

I’m not Dustin, but I have been using Google Voice for between 2 & 3 years.

If by “using your cell number,” you are asking if you can your port that number over to GoogleVoice the answer is “No.” Google says they would like to provide that service in the future.

But of course you can keep your cell number for your cell. GoogleVoice works like central station that rings out to all of your physical phones, plus a lot more. You can set it to allow some calls to go to your cell, some to your landline and some to both. I don’t know the current limit of physical phones, but it used to be 5. And it’s easy to change the phones so if I am going to be at a particular number for a week, I can easily set and delete that number.

For me, all those folks who already had my cell just kept it. The calls come in and don’t go through GoogleVoice. For my business card and new contacts, I give the GoogleVoice number so I can use the features it provides. Over time, more and more people have the GoogeVoice number. On a person by person basis I may suggest people use the GoogleVoice number because then they don’t have to think about what number to call to reach me.

Every person’s needs are different, but for me, if I would port one of my cell or land lines over to Google, I’d just have to replace it with a new one anyway . . .as I still need a cell and land line. I don’t know if Google has anything special in the works for the Google phones, but time will tell.

One last comment, while the features of GoogleVoice have always been great, the sound quality hasn’t. Usually it works fine, but every once in a while the calls either break up or it’s hard to hear. So I just call the folks back. Hopefully this won’t be an issue as GoogleVoice goes public.

GARRY

No I wasn’t really talking about the number of the beast.

Actually, I was referring to how people will become so tracked that they will no longer have any freedom. Each person will become known as a number pretty much losing their identity, becoming prisoners and not being able to act, feel, live life, the way they would like to because they are always being watched, and to scared to do anything that might be considered even remotely wrong is the eyes of “so called” law and government.

I could have swore there was talk about this in the Bible as we are reaching the end of times. I could be mistaken though, perhaps it was Nostradamus predictions I was thinking of.

Dav

As for Google Voice – I’m with those who have said what they have about the government already tracking us. If you have a cell phone, a credit card, a bank account, heck, probably even any utility bills at all, the government is watching. I’m not paranoid or a conspiracy theorist, but I think it’s naive to think otherwise. But…I really want to start using Google Voice…I just don’t want to have to start telling everyone to call a different number. Plus, you have to go through extra steps to call others from your Google Voice number, which is one of the reasons I was hoping to wait until Google releases some kind of iPhone app. I should start testing it out tho…Anyone want to call me? LOL.

This type of stuff is written in the Bible, is it not?

The song “The Prisoner” from Iron Maiden comes to mind..

“I’m Am Not A Number, I Am A Free Man!”

I know that’s a little off topic, but, all the same, a little scary, if you ask me..

Thanx Holly

Garry if you want your photo to appear when you are posting comments on this blog (and others) it will automatically show up – after you create a free account and upload your photo to this Gravatar site: http://en.gravatar.com/ then it will appear when commenting

PS. Sorry Garry, let me solve the mystery.
Two ways to go.
1. Go to http://en.gavatar.com and sign up.
2. Better in my opinion is to go in to http://www.wordpress.com and free sign up. Once on board, go to your profile and it will allow you to download your photo and it will appear everywhere that has Wordpress or other links. Hope this helps.

Regarding, BIG BROTHER . . . . I think I just gave up and surrendered. My passport is tracked, my phone is tracked, more states are getting “Smart” drivers licenses and any marketer will know how we are tracked on the internet. I finally said, “What have I got to hide anyway?” Coming from someone who has always had privacy and anonymity as a major concern, it’s a big surrender.

But ya know what? Life feels better for not worrying about it. I live right, try to not make too many mistakes and try to trust the process.

There are a few things that I think are hair brained at best. For example the drive to have chips in all domestic (farm and personal) animals so the government can track those chickens. But I’ll leave that for another forum.

Back to Google Voice, a feature I like is the ability to record a call at any point in the call . . . it’s come in handy a few times when they were involved conversations that I later had to relay to others. I always ask the callers permission first.

The whole technology of communication is changing so fast, it’s impossible for me to keep up with it all. Some of it is useful, some of it is just a new toy . . .

GARRY