Jangl Is Gaining Traction

Jangl is a service that allows you to communicate with people without having to give out your own personal telephone numbers.  So just to go over the basics in case you’ve never heard of Jangl before, you create an account and enter your phone numbers.  Jangle then allocates you a number that routes calls to your telephone number, hence whoever is calling you does not actually know your real number.

It’s quite an ingenious and simple concept, and it has obviously proven popular with the public.  Because of the anonymity that the service provides, Jangl was a perfect partner for Match.com who have been offering it as a freebie under the matchTalk brand for their 15 millions users.  So far it has been a hit with Match.com users with 275,000 having used it since it launched on November 2.

Clearly the folks at Jangl are onto something.  And they obviously think that major expansion in their user base is in the pipeline:

“Jangl could be used as a verb as well as a noun.  We have big plans here,” said Michael Cerda, co-founder of Jangl in an interview with USA Today.

I agree that Jangl could indeed see stellar growth,  but I have reservation on the readiness of the general public for such a service.  The demand for privacy is there, people hate getting cold-called, but this service can’t stop that happening.