How do you add contacts to new web text service?

Question

This has been an obnoxious experience with Verizon's new text service from the web site to any device. I tried to get started doing exactly what they said to do.  I selected all my contacts that appeared in the list to add to the contacts in the web text contact list.  I immediately got a message saying I had too many contacts.  How much does it cost them for a few extra contacts when Verizon is already storing this information on their site from my iphone backup assistant.  Then I tried deleting contacts from the list in front of me.  The list did not work.  It was a dead list that could not be clicked on unless you selected all contacts at the top.  But that's exactly what Verizon didn't want.  I preferred to use this list to remove contacts because it included my notes about the contact that would help me to decide contacts I didn't need.  Then I tried choice two, a small window to the right of this that held all the contacts and I was able to click on those I could delete, even though this didn't include the contact info in the list form on the left.  I spent a great deal of time doing this because each time I clicked to remove a contact, the list of contacts started at the very beginning again.  I kept navigating each time I deleted a contact and finally after  very long time had finished.  I clicked to add the remaining contacts and received a big notice in my face that the session had timed out.  I was extremely angry that Verizon carelessly forced me into spending all that time because they are too cheap to store more than the mandatory number of contacts they decided you needed.  I got through the fury and started the wild goose chase of trying to contact Verizon.  All those links did was to take me to messages and articles, etc. that had nothing to do with the problem.  No matter how few or how many words I used to search, it still found nothing relevant.  I reluctantly tried to use live chat which said chat available now.  I clicked on chat and nit only directed me back to the same page where I could get no information at all.  This sees like a great scam to me.,  The greedy telephone company tries to sell themselves as offering a free new service!!  Then they make it impossible to set up the account no matter how hard I tried.  I spent at least 3 hours going around in circles, actually believing each new sign to contact Verizon which always led back to the same dead end.  How do you manage to get your contacts deleted to their arbitrary number within their very arbitrary time limit?  There is no good reason for either the number of contacts to be limited so greatly or for the time it takes to do this tedious manual deleting to be limited in such a manner.  Even if they are going to be nasty and limit the time you have to delete contacts, the least they could do is tell up front how long you have to make these cuts.  Or they could have, when nearing the limit of time, given me a 5 minute warning.  Not from Verizon.  They should not have forced me to delete contacts to begin with and secondly there should not be time limit on such a tedious job.  It really makes me hate a company that I already dislike.  They are so greedy that my land line ad cell cost me over $250 a month.  Any suggestions on how to complete this tedious task before the time is up would be greatly appreciated. Other companies allow their customers to easily send texts right from the website.  Why Verizon decided to provide an app which I don't need and which will prevent me from using the we texting service is something I don't understand.  I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Answer 1

Oops, sorry. Since you posted the question on the iPhone support forum, I assumed you meant how to do it with the iPhone.
Heysan and Jivetalk look a lot like the mobile versions of the major IM apps (like http://mm.yahoo.com). If accessing Yahoo, I need to create my buddies and groups in Yahoo using a full interface, and they show up on the mobile interface. The mobile interface doesn't allow me the same flexibility.