Fast Society - Fast Becoming A Go-To App
While in Lake Tahoe for the Tahoe Tech Talk I was introduced to an iPhone app that had just been released called Fast Society. The description I was provided went something like “It’s a group texting application“.
Frankly, that sounded pretty boring to me but I proceeded to install it and took the minute required to activate it. It was at this point that I was added into the ‘texting group’ of a few other friends who were attending.
After the first few communique’s back and forth I was struck by one of those ‘Wow’ moments. I don’t typically write about specific products, much less review them, so the fact that I’m doing so now should clue you into the fact of just how impactful I believe this app is going to be.
Let me state right up front that it’s the type of thing you need to experience to appreciate. While I can describe it, it’s not the same.
So what, exactly, is it you ask?
In a nutshell you can add a group of friends to your list, assign a time-frame from an hour to 3 days for that list to be active, and then everyone participating on the list sees any texts you send to it. In addition you can instantly establish a conference call to everyone on the list, as well as send out your location to the list. You’ll notice that I said you had to provide a time duration for the list, you can only have one list active at any given time, which may sound like a hindrance but you’ll find it makes perfect sense.
To give a very specific scenario, when I attend the BlogWord Expo I intend on setting up a list with my primary partners in crime. We’ll instantly be able to communicate via voice, text, and provide current locations amongst ourselves. Those of you who attend large diverse conferences can appreciate the difficulty in maintaining that level of communication.
Just download it and try it out, have I ever steered you wrong?
Cheers,
Matt Ridings – @techguerilla
