BouncePhone text message commands
(make your phone do stuff)

Use the text message commands below at any time to customize your BouncePhone experience. Including filtering your matches, getting profile info on the people you are BounceTexting with, and updating your profile.

Each command is a word that can be texted to 99899. You can also reply to messages from 99899 with the commands and get the same effect.

1. Bounce  - there are three things you can do with this command, it varies depending on when you text it in.

a) If you do not have an account text Bounce to 99899 and you will receive text messages to walk you through the sign up process right through your mobile phone.

b) If you are in a BounceText session with someone and you text or reply with the word Bounce you will be bounced to the next available person.

c)  If you are not in a Bounce session because you have text'd in the command PAUSE, (or due to inactivity) you can text in the word Bounce to start bouncing with people again.

d) Selecting your kind of people to BounceText with. You can follow the command/word Bounce with key words to filter the kind of people you are matched with. You can include interests, age, gender, area code, anything you can think of! Put the key words in order from most important to least.

Ex: Bounce blond female student 26 415

In the above example the Bounce command followed by those key words would get you BounceTexting with the closest match to a 26 year old, blonde, female, student from the 415 area code. By putting blonde first that criteria would be ranked most important in the matching process.

NOTE: gender is always THE most important criteria for matching in our system. Once you’ve set the gender when you sign up that preference will always stay the same until you change it.  You can change your gender preference from your My Profile (Home) page.

Add as many key words after the command Bounce as you like :)

2. Pause – (pauses bouncing) Once you have an account and are Bouncing you can text in or reply with the command Pause at any time. This will end any current Bounce session you are in and pause bouncing. You will not start Bouncing again until you text in the command Bounce

3. Profile – when bounce texting with another person you can text in the word profile and you will receive a text message with all the profile information for that user and a link to their pic and profile on BouncePhone.com

4. SetAge – followed by your age. This command allows you to update your age at anytime via text message.

Ex text: SetAge 25 to 99899

(now your age will be displayed on your web and mobile profile as 25)

5. Add – The ADD command followed by a users screen name then sent to 99899, allows you to add friends to your BounceFriends list

You text: Add JimmyJones to 99899

(This would send JimmyJones a friend request. If JimmyJones accepts then you are on each others BounceFriends list. Once on each other's BounceFriends list you will receive each others STATUS updates.)

6. Status – The STATUS command followed by your status update, sends a status updates to everyone on your BounceFriends list.

Charlie texts: STATUS snorkeling in Aruba to 99899

(All the people on Charlie's BounceFriends list will receive a text saying Charlie's status: "Snorkeling in Aruba")

7. Mute – If you text the command MUTE followed by a users name you will no longer receive that persons status updates. You will still be on each others BounceFriends list.

Example: MUTE Charlie to 99899

8. Unmute – If you text the command UNMUTE followed by a user's scree name to 99899 you will again receive their status updates.

Example: UNMUTE Charlie to 99899

9. Block – If you text the command BLOCK followed by a user's screen name to 99899, you will neither bounce with nor receive messages from that user.

Example: BLOCK Charlie to 99899

10. Unblock – If you text the command UNBLOCK followed by a user's screen name to 99899, you may again bounce and receive messages from that user.

Example: UNBLOCK Charlie to 99899

11. Invite - text invite to 99899 and we will send you an invitation text message that you can forward to friends with instructions on how to join.

12. BC -The BC command followed by a BounceCircle name allows you to use that BouncCircle.

Example: text BC JohnsBookClub to 99899 and you will begin using the JohnsBookClub circle.

13. LC (Leave Circle) -At any time text in the command LC to 99899 and you will be bounced out of the BounceCircle you are in and back in with the general BouncePhone community.

Example: text LC to 99899 and you will leave the BounceCircle you are in and begin bouncing with the general population.

14. COMMENT – This command followed by your friends user name and your comment allows you to send comments directly to anyone on your friends list. The comment will go to their phone and appear in the comments section of their profile.

Example text: COMMENT JOE08 Hey! Are you coming to the party? to 99899

"Hey! Are you coming to the party?" is sent to the phone of JOE08 and to JOE08's profile.

(you and JOE08 must be friends before you can comment each other)