I work on the IT systems and occasionally respond to text messages for six of the UK's most popular psychic SMS services.
 
It's a mixed bag of emotions, to be interested in, continuously following peoples depressing lives. You hear & read about the good times and the bad times, their most sordid secrets, inner feelings, their hopes and their dreams.

They generally don't want hippy, spiritual crap, they just want some guidance because they've become so lost and desperate for somebody to tell them everything will be alright.

But you know, as easy as it is to take some reassurance that on a really low, bizarre level, you're somehow helping these people, it's also a real shame to interact with such fucking gullible people on a daily basis.

They think it's all real and it's not. We just make it all up as we go along.
 

coming next week, a list of mobile numbers...

( TonyUNDERSCORE from the Internet, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 0:48, Reply)