SMS Text Service
The Mikeysline SMS text service was launched in December 2015. We have been supporting both adults and young people in their times of need ever since.
In October 2020 we extended our text-based options to include Messenger and Webchat, since then WhatsApp to make our services more accessible to a wider audience.
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Your Privacy Is Paramount. Your Anonymity Is Assured.
By using a text option, as opposed to a phone, anonymity is assured. Research indicates that 1 in 4 people will hang up when they use a phone, nerves take over and sometimes it can be difficult to get the words out. Using text a moment can be paused, words can be deleted and time taken to put into words how you are feeling.
Texting also removes the awkwardness sometimes found in talking on the phone with a total stranger.
Open to All Ages
A common misconception about Mikeysline is that it is only for young people, we are actually here for all ages and always have been. In 2021 we launched an additional service specifically for young people, particularly of secondary school age.
Research shows that 42% of young people would rather write than speak on the phone about their problems and 71% said they welcome a texting option. In this current age of multimedia communications it is disappointing to know that there are so many still feeling alone, isolated and not able to express their feelings.
We hope that by providing further options more people will be able to express their feelings in their own preferred way.
