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A Picture Costs A Thousand Words If you’re texting pictures or emoji - the little icons of smiley faces or clapping hands - on your mobile, beware: many networks class those things as picture messages, and charge serious money for sending them. You’ll often find that even the most expensive contract bundle only gives you free text messages, not picture ones. The good news is that there are plenty of alternatives. If you use an iPhone and the recipient has an iPhone, you can send anything you like over Messages using your internet connection, bypassing the phone network altogether, and if you don’t have that possibility you can connect with friends or family via Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or one of the many hundreds of chat/messaging apps available for PCs, smartphones and tablets. You can even use apps to bypass the phone network to make voice and video calls: Skype is available for almost every platform, while Apple users can FaceTime one another for voice or video.
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