After months of receiving Dodgeball check-ins from Erik, I finally took the plunge and sent my first check-in. I nervously punched in the coded message "@hideout" and sent an SMS flying through mobile network. Almost immediately I received back my first friend-of-a-friend message. While messages from friends are sent using the cheaper SMS protocol, the friend-of-a-friend message came back as a much more expensive MMS multimedia message complete with a picture. When I returned home there was also an email waiting for me explaining what this message was and why I got it, just in case I was confused.
