I got an invite the other day to join Google Voice!  I immediately logged in and picked a phone number.  Google allows you to search for a  number that spells words or contains a string of numbers.  I tried DONNA, DONNAL, DONNAS, LIBERTY, VILLE, EPEEL, AVENGERS, etc…  Nothing was available.  So I then put in my parents’ phone number and voila!  My number is almost exactly like theirs except my second number is omitted and a 0 is appended to the end.  This makes it easy for them and me!  Unfortunately no one other than me has called my Google Voice number so I can’t exactly report on usage.  All I know is I have called it and left a test message and within seconds I get an email and a text message saying a message was left and when I log into Google Voice the message has been TRANSCRIBED PERFECTLY and as the recorded message plays the transcribed words light up!  It’s awesome.  Some people seem a bit worried that this is yet another invasion of privacy and Google will now have access to our phone coversations as well as our email and searching history.  That could be true.  It doesn’t overly worry me but that could be because I am a tech geek and I am blinded by the shininess of it all.