Other situations perfect for using 3jam…

Posted by andy, February 1st, 2006

  • No-Talking Situations: Sitting in the lecture hall, you’re bored out of your mind. You see a cute guy in the front row so you text your three other girlfriends seated around the room to ask if they see him and know who he is.
  • Quick Poll: It’s 7pm on Friday and you’re at Happy Hour. You want to know what your friends are doing later that night, but you’re talking to a girl and can’t leave to make a bunch of phone calls. She’s just gone to the bathroom, so you have time to send a quick text message…
  • Instant Information Gathering and Dissemination: You get to the club in the middle of the city where parking is tough. You get on group chat with four of your buddies to ask if anyone sees an empty parking spot where they parked. Likewise, you see a few spots in an alley and you let everyone know.
  • General Invites: It’s 6am on Sunday and you’re heading for a spontaneous surf session at Ocean Beach. You want to find out who might be in and if anyone’s already down at the water to let you know how the waves are and how many people are out…
  • Interactive Banter: It’s college football big game day and being a Cal undergrad, you’re a huge Bears fan. The game’s at Stanford this year, which is never as much fun as games played at Berkeley. You decide to watch the game at Henry’s in Berkeley instead of making the trip to Palo Alto. Your close group of friends includes people who went to both Stanford and Cal…some are at the game…some are watching it at bars in the City. You send a group chat text message that starts non-stop smack talking throughout the game. (btw…go Bears!)
  • Change of Plans: You’re meeting five friends at a restaurant. You’re first to arrive and you find that the restaurant is closed on Mondays. Sync up and agree on a new meeting spot before everyone gets down there.

Can you think of other situations perfect for group text messaging? Leave a comment!

4 Responses to “Other situations perfect for using 3jam…”

Dan
April 11th, 2006

Great idea, but — HELP!! I started a 3jam conversation w/ 3 people, one of whom got caught in a ‘feedback loop’ — she’s been getting the same txt over and over again. I’ve tried to kill the conversation (sending commands including “cancel chat”, “abort”, “end chat”, “hangup”, “hang up”), and she tried to block the sender, but nothing seems to work. I can’t find any mention on the web site of how to end a 3jam conversation, either, and I found out she gets charged $.10/sms… please email me at my listed address if you need my phone # in any debugging tools; in the meantime, any suggestions are appreciated.

Dan

clee
April 12th, 2006

how do i take someone off my 3jam address book?

andy
April 12th, 2006

Hi Dan. As I said in the email, we’re very sorry about the bug. To end a conversation you can reply with

.end

if you started the conversation. If you didn’t start the conversation, you can leave it at any time by replying with

.bye

We have identified where the bug is and are working to fix it.

Thanks!

Andy

andy
April 12th, 2006

you can remove someone from your 3jam address book by replying

remove firstname lastname

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