How to send a text to a group

I have the Iphone 4s
1. you should be able to easily make a group for texting on the phone, without having to go to a computer
2. even after setting up a group text, you still have to individually select the members of your already created group in order to send a text
3. the number of persons you can send a text to seems to be limited to....ten. Wow.
This has to be fixed immediately in this phone. It is a phone first, before the cute stuff.
I am surprised you all missed this (to the Apple folks)
Does anyone have a workaround?

thanks. However, group texting is somewhat akin to tweeting to a large number of people with some frequency. It normally does not require 'discussion'. Example of use:
1. to Soccer Mom's that a game is cancelled. or that game delayed for 2 hours.
2. to a prayer team that a member has a request for the group to intervene in prayer over
3. to colleagues about a location change for happy hour or a surprise party etc.
my last 3 phones I was able to transfer my contacts and set up text groups that I blast to in 15 minutes. Never have to continually reselect the same people for subsequent texts.
You are suggesting I keep the text thread in the phone to "use" for subsequent texts, correct?

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