Any time someone sends me a text longer than 180 characters, I use MMS. really? Not even sure I get a choice in the matter. they get sent as seperate messages, with a tail/head and only cost a single message for 160+ here* they bind into one message on ther eceiver ends maybe you have a CDMA network? I don't know much about cell phones. if you're US, most probably there are messaging apps (Chomp) that can do CDMA splitting will just break the SMS up into seperate messages and send them one after other I just use TextSecure for my SMS/MMS. rarely even use SMS these days, mostly do everything on HO No idea what that is. hangouts Ah. I get to use a different communication app for each person. TextSecure, Threema, IRC, Hangouts, email, Facebook. mike: sounds hard to keep track of It's rather unpleasant. I wish they'd all just use IRC like a proper human. heh i hardly know any people that i see in real life that still use irc My core friend group exists in four IRC channels (of which I am in three). i generally tend to steer people towards skype i like hangouts - can text, mms, voice & video call for free and now with the new app on my wear watch, i can interact with the HO's w/o picking in me pocket most of the brainiacs i know are all on IRC though grody: i found hangouts voice calling did not work well at all over distance skype worked a LOT better Skype is just awesome works great even in mediocre network conditions Skype likes to eat all my RAM what OS? trick question - it leaps out of his computer and literally eats the RAM from any computer it can find, regardless of what's running :P darn CIA :) mnathani_: Linux brycec: that's awesome LOL having 32 bit memory limit on windows is kind of handy so much stuff leaks, that at least you know it's not going to use all of your ram. actually isn't skype on linux 32 bit?