No real witty intro here other than Dexter Season 4 was legit. Ok so on to the article. Recently, I was at a friendly gathering having a few cocktails with my boys getting cheated out of Dice wins cough Quebb cough (and no not Tron Carter dice, its a drinking game) when I suddenly realized that a couple my friends had the new iPhone 4 (color me jealous). So me being the chaty kathy I am (is it with a c or k), exchanged info with them: name, number, website, address, email, birthday, facebook url and even facebook pic as my contact picture. I know Nation of Hypeness you are  probably thinking to yourself, when I am at a friendly gathering I am not trying to get a person’s life story its takes too long, I am trying to get on that Flabongo. Well me too, but it just so happens that with a few touches and 1 person sending another person a contact all this can be accomplished in seconds. Let me put it different terms, more information and more time for Flabongos, its a win win!

First, you will need to create a contact card for yourself. (If you have a Mac it is really easy to do in Address Book too)  You can do this by opening the Contacts app and pressing the Add contact button. It’s the exact same as adding someone else, excepts its your information hopefully you are falling me so far! Ok so from this contact card screen scroll down until you see Share Contact. Yup, you guess it, press this and bam you can share via MMS or Email! Now when your friend gets all your info they can just send you their contact card! In under thirty seconds you just exchanged as much or as little info with a fellow iPhoner!

Two quick tips:

1. If you give a lot of people your number. Have a two contact cards. For example, have a card named Rabah Rahil as your in-depth contact and Rabah R as your name, number and picture, thats it . I have a pretty in-depth contact card : Address, Facebook Profile URL, Picture, Birthday, iPhone, Email, so I have two contacts cards and only send my in-depth contact to people I know. Below is what the recipient will see and they can just press on it and create a new contact or merge with an existing one (the Email looks similar).

2. Use Spotlight to navigate to your Contact Card. It’s so much faster all you have to do is press the home button once if you are on the 1st screen or twice if you are on any other screen. Type in your name and up pops your contact card!

Now if you are at a party and exchanging info you don’t have to write it down on the bar napkin you can just share your contact with your fellow iPhone owner (only works for people who have an iPhone). What they don’t have an iPhone? Don’t waste your time with getting their contact info, Remember iPhone users have the most sex!

Is this how you exchange contact info?

Why not just use Bump?

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