Google Voice for kids
Tags: Telephony
I've been playing around with Google Voice for a while now. I haven't decided exactly how to best make use of it though. My main phone system is an Asterisk version called PBX in a Flash, which I've written about before. I've played around with connecting Google Voice to Asterisk but outgoing is currently not working. Incoming comes to a trunk I set up specifically for Google voice and goes right to my extension, bypassing my IVR (auto-attendant..) There is also a great application for it on the iPhone (although you have to be jailbroken to use it.)
But this post isn't about all that. This is about my 12-year-old daughter who said she downloaded a free ring tone and ended up getting on some $10 premium messaging scam. Now both she and my 15-year-old son have Google Voice numbers that point to their cell phones. Not that they do this often, but if they ever need to give out a phone number for any reason, other than kids at school, they can use their Google Voice number and keep their real phone number hidden, definitely a good security screen.
As for my usage? I don't know yet what I'm going to do with Google Voice. Do you use it?
I've been playing around with Google Voice for a while now. I haven't decided exactly how to best make use of it though. My main phone system is an Asterisk version called PBX in a Flash, which I've written about before. I've played around with connecting Google Voice to Asterisk but outgoing is currently not working. Incoming comes to a trunk I set up specifically for Google voice and goes right to my extension, bypassing my IVR (auto-attendant..) There is also a great application for it on the iPhone (although you have to be jailbroken to use it.)
But this post isn't about all that. This is about my 12-year-old daughter who said she downloaded a free ring tone and ended up getting on some $10 premium messaging scam. Now both she and my 15-year-old son have Google Voice numbers that point to their cell phones. Not that they do this often, but if they ever need to give out a phone number for any reason, other than kids at school, they can use their Google Voice number and keep their real phone number hidden, definitely a good security screen.
As for my usage? I don't know yet what I'm going to do with Google Voice. Do you use it?
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