I just sent a text message to someone else with an iPhone and it came through from my email address instead of my phone number.

I just sent a test message to someone I just met from my iPhone to her iPhone and it came through from my email address instead of my phone number. This seems very strange. Anyone know why this might happen? It seems like a potentially big privacy problem.

likely the iMessage feature it does so to save you money as sms's are mostly charged by the sms where data is not
read more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMessage
you can disable iMessage in the settings of your phone

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