If you ’re on the East Coast and can still read this , consider yourself lucky . But if you somehow manage to pull through , there ’s a respectable luck your electricity — and Internet — will be stagnant . Use SMSinstead .
BuzzFeed ’s intrepidInternet - monger and storm old stager John Herrman rounded up a helpful variety of ways to get the web ’s most crucial stuff — Google , email , Facebook , Twitter — using quick text bursts instead of a web web browser .
For example : text anything you want to search for to 466453 ( GOOGLE ) and it ’ll hit you back with text results . You might not be able to do much with them , but at least you’re able to check NFL scores . Facebook also offers notification forwarding over SMS , so you may get the in vogue on which of your friend have been blow out into the Atlantic Ocean even after your router goes down .
And Twitter , of trend , wasdesigned to be used over SMS(it ’s lawful ! ) , so you ’ll be amply covered there .
Can you believe this is how a pile of people in poor nation use the cyberspace every day ? After the storm is done , perchance you ’ll be more thankful . strike FWD for the rest of these essential survival tips . [ BuzzFeed ]
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