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Fast Society Gives the Heavy Texter's Thumbs a Much Needed Break

— March 22, 2011 — Tech
Fast Society is a new spin on communicating with your friends, your colleagues, your family--anyone -- with utmost ease. Fast Society allows its user to create a team of their friends to send mass texts, locations, and conference calls. Download the app for your smart phone for free!

Do you ever get annoyed having to add all contacts when you send a mass text message? Fast society allows you to dial one number to reach your entire posse. It's essentially like an MSN group chat conversation, but on your smart phone. Exhausted of texting in general? Just text the word 'call' and you're automatically hooked up with a private conference number to talk to your entire crew of friends at once.

Also, for the stalkers at heart, know exactly where your friends who downloaded the smart phone app are, and share your locations with one another. Did you somehow get split from your friends at the bar? Fast Society's got you covered.
Trend Themes
1. Group Texting - Fast Society's group texting feature offers an opportunity to disrupt traditional texting and allow for easy communication with large groups of people.
2. Location Sharing - The location sharing feature in Fast Society presents an opportunity to disrupt traditional messaging apps by allowing users to easily track the whereabouts of their friends.
3. Conference Calling - Fast Society's conference calling feature offers an opportunity to disrupt traditional phone calls and allow for easy communication with groups of people.
Industry Implications
1. Messaging Apps - Fast Society's features illustrate the potential for disruptive innovation within the messaging app industry.
2. Telecommunications - Fast Society's features showcase the potential for disruptive innovation within the telecommunications industry.
3. Social Networking - Fast Society's feature to share location and communicate easily with large groups of people offers an opportunity for disruption within the social networking industry.
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