How do you send messages on tumblr?

Site or application for logging text and photo messages?

• For a research project, we’re asking ~24 high school and college students to log their experiences with homework by sending us text messages and photos over the course of about two weeks. Is there a site where they can send those messages so that we could see them from a computer? There are particular features we’re seeking... What comes closest to satisfying them? Ideally: -The students would be able to use any cell phone that can send text and photo messages, using that phone’s native messaging rather than an app. -We’d be able to see all the posts from a computer. -We’d be able to reply to the most recent post or to any along the way. Students could see the reply on their phone or on the site. -We’d be able to see all the posts from all the students aggregated in one, searchable place. -We’d be able to send a message to everyone at once, and even better, to subgroups and individuals as well. -Students could opt to share the posts with just us or with all the other students in the project. -Students could comment on other students’ posts shared with the group, and those comments would also be shared. -The content would only be visible to those within the group. -The tool would be reasonably current and accepted by students (no myspace-like options) -The whole thing would be free or cheap, and require very little set-up/sign-up for the students. So far, we’ve been considering: -Posterous/Spaces (no longer accepting sign-ups) -Text messaging (received only on phone, and not easy to manage group vs. individual messages...) -Facebook (requires smartphone and app, not easy to manage group vs. individual messages...) -Tumblr (not easy to set up a group...) -Twitter (limits message length...) -Flickr (photo-centric, requires smartphone and app...) -dscout (not free/cheap, requires smartphone and app...) Got anything that meets more of our criteria than these?

• Answer:

  Flickr doesn't require the app, I never use it. I just email my photos directly to the email address flickr issues you for your account. You can sign up for one account, get the direct email address and then tell it to everyone.