January 13, 200917 yr Teen sends 14,528 text messages in one month http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/teen-sends-14528-texts-in-one-month/2009/01/13/1231608658195.html (Highlighted the important bits) An American teenager sent almost 500 text messages a day last month, leaving her father with a phone bill of 440 pages. Reina Hardesty, 13, of California, sent 14,528 text messages last month. That works out to about 470 text messages a day, at an average of a message every two minutes if she was awake for 15 hours each day, the New York Post said. Her father, Greg, a reporter, said he was shocked to receive a 440-page phone bill last month. "First, I laughed. I thought: 'That's insane, that's impossible,' " he told the Post. "And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible. "Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill." He asked his daughter: "Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?" Reina said she messaged a core group of "four obsessive texters" - all girls between the ages of 12 and 13. "Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time," she said. At a karaoke birthday party, Reina sent a text to her best friend, who was sitting right next to her while others were singing, the Post said. She also texted her friends to brag about the high number of text messages she had racked up when her parents got the bill. Fortunately for her parents, Reina's phone plan allows unlimited texting for $US30 ($43) a month. Otherwise the phone bill would have been about $2900, the Post said. Reina's parents have since placed restrictions on her phone use, forbidding her from texting after dinner. The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old is 1742, the Post said. Texting is out of control :\ Whats wrong with these peoples lives :\. Even the average txting number for a teenage, nearly 2000 is bad :sad:.
January 13, 200917 yr hmmmmmmm seeing comparison like that, cost of texts $30, value of texts $2900, for the mobile companies to be able to sustain it, they must be making a nice profit on the contracts. and if not, they aren't going to be able to let people keep racking up those amounts of texts.
January 13, 200917 yr oh wow, thats alott... i text 2000 a month:wacky: Then you're clearly a text addict!!:rolleyes:
January 13, 200917 yr It's ridiculous how much mobile phone companies charge or text messages. They're literally just a few kilobits in size. I probably "send" 40,000 text messages' worth of data just browsing this forum for 10 minutes.
January 13, 200917 yr I've texted my friend when she was sitting next to me for fun before with a witty message, I admit that I've done that before :shame:
January 13, 200917 yr I haven't texted more than twice in the past year. Costs money and it's pointless...just call the person or go find them.
January 14, 200917 yr Lately I've been a texting fiend, sending probably 8 or more a day. Mostly I just do it to avoid getting stuck in long drawn-out conversations, or to flirt. But it can get addicting.
January 14, 200917 yr :stunned: That's not possible! I send 1 message a week in average, i think :P I never use my phone.
January 16, 200917 yr Young girls these days have lost the power of speech, they need to email/text their mates who is sitting next to them ;)
January 16, 200917 yr I haven't texted more than twice in the past year. Costs money and it's pointless...just call the person or go find them. Spot on.;)
January 17, 200917 yr Spot on.;) Hrmph. Well I find you both exceedingly lazy for not taking the time and effort to type out your thoughts. Instead you just dial a number and blab! Kids these days.
January 17, 200917 yr personally i don't see what's the great thing about texting... i mean why not just talk to someone on the phone or in person?
January 17, 200917 yr because talking is akward for people sometimes:uhoh: Exactly. And because sometimes people don't want to get into deep conversations, and they'd rather just give short answers.
January 17, 200917 yr Exactly. And because sometimes people don't want to get into deep conversations, and they'd rather just give short answers. ok i could understand that, in that it'd be better to just send a quick message rather than talk. i think i should rephrase what i meant. i don't see how people can text all day long. like for example my cousin texts throughout when we are having family get togethers/dinner. i just don't see what is there to talk about all the time.
January 17, 200917 yr ok i could understand that, in that it'd be better to just send a quick message rather than talk. i think i should rephrase what i meant. i don't see how people can text all day long. like for example my cousin texts throughout when we are having family get togethers/dinner. i just don't see what is there to talk about all the time. They should ban this cousin from doing so, as it's extremely rude, annoying and disrespectful.;)
January 17, 200917 yr Exactly. And because sometimes people don't want to get into deep conversations, and they'd rather just give short answers. In other words, they can't really be bothered to talk to the person concerned, so they should just be honest and stop keeping up the pretence.:dozey:
January 17, 200917 yr In other words, they can't really be bothered to talk to the person concerned, so they should just be honest and stop keeping up the pretence.:dozey: In a similar way, I write to all my friends using calligraphy on parchment... I have a deep fear of rejection!
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