It’s highly likely that you’ve been following the Tiger Woods situation to some extent, as it has been all over sports (and national) news over the past few weeks. Regardless, the Tiger Woods incident is not tied in with the TigerText Messaging System, but I’m sure that he would have appreciated having it when he did.

TigerText is a fascinating, yet fairly basic messaging system. A user can send a text to another person and actually select a timeframe over when that text can be read. In addition, the user can also mark messages as self-destructing messages (delete-on-read function): messages that are completely erased off phones and servers after a mere 60 seconds after opened.

Time notes that the implications could be huge, especially for spies and philanders. Text messaging is a massive part of American society with people from every age demographic participating. Considering that many negative or accidental messages can be sent out, TigerText seems to be a useful service that some people could find useful.

A way to approach TigerText is like an Outlook email recall. While people don’t generally send text messages to large groups of people, sending messages to the wrong people is not uncommon.

According to MSNBC, the TigerText application is free to try out for the first 100 messages/15 days, presumably whichever comes first. After that, a user can pay $1.49 a month for 250 monthly text messages or $2.49 a month for an unlimited number of text messages. It isn’t currently available for Android and Blackberry, but should be available soon.

TigerText is a system that has not been explored before—the idea that the text messaging privacy is in the hands of the user. Many websites are reporting that this system could have far-reaching consequences, and I personally have yet to see a website that states that TigerText could promote more positive than negative.

What are your thoughts on TigerText? Do you plan on giving the system a try?