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Over 14,000 text messages in a month???
Topic Started: Jan 12 2009, 12:29 PM (743 Views)
Heather
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Greg Hardesty didn't LOL when he got his teen daughter's cellphone statement.

All he could think was "OMG!"

PHOTOS: Text-Crazed Teen

The California man's 13-year-old daughter, Reina, racked up an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month. The online AT&T statement ran 440 pages.

"First, I laughed. I thought, 'That's insane, that's impossible,' " the 45-year-old dad said. "And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible."

He found it was - barely.

It works out to 484 text messages a day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour.

"Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill," said Hardesty, of Silverado Canyon.

The reporter for the Orange County Register grilled his daughter on her texting habit - by text message, of course.

"Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?" he asked.

"Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time," she explained.

She messages a core of "four obsessive texters" - all girls between the ages of 12 and 13 - on her LG phone.

Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her.

She even texted her friends to brag about the high number of text messages she had logged when her parents got the statement.

Her texting soared last month because "it was winter break and I was bored," Reina told her parents.

Luckily, Hardesty has a phone plan that allows unlimited texting for $30 a month. Otherwise, he estimates, he would have owed AT&T $2,905.60 at a rate of 20 cents per message.

The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742, according to a Nielsen study of cellphone usage.

Hardesty admits he himself punches in 900 messages a month - 700 more than average for his age group, according to Nielsen.

Hardesty and his ex-wife have since placed restrictions on Reina's cellphone use, ruling she cannot text after dinner.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/01112009/news/...niac_149614.htm

I don't even use text messaging. It's easier to just call the person :hedo:
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Her royal highness manages to average about 2500 a month.

I cant imagine having that much to say to anybody
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No matter how hard your day, no matter how tough your choices, how complex your ethical decisions, you always get to choose what you have for lunch.
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We have texting turned off on my royal highness's phone. She thinks it's cruel and unusual punishment but I'm not paying a bunch of extra money every month for her to text in class.
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I myself dont really use the feature at all except for quick replies to questions they ask me, and if it requires me to type in more than 2 words using my numeric keypad, then I just call them back.

I do admit that if I had a full QWERTY keyboard on my phone I would probably use it more than that, but not to any great amount. I dont really get calls except from my wife or child for the most part - anyone else who'd call me......would call me, and not text.
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No matter how hard your day, no matter how tough your choices, how complex your ethical decisions, you always get to choose what you have for lunch.
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Give that Roo a beer

That's insane and it's probably just teaching her to type "ur" "u" "8"
and "1" instead of "you" "your" "ate" and "one" :sarcastic:

I call the person up if i have that much to say
:wtf:
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I don't have that much to say now but I sure did when I was 14 or 15 :lol:

I think those parents should switch to the unlimite. :thumbs:
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Heather
Jan 12 2009, 12:48 PM
We have texting turned off on my royal highness's phone. She thinks it's cruel and unusual punishment but I'm not paying a bunch of extra money every month for her to text in class.

:wtf: How does she manage that while in school? At Kellie's high school they'll take the phone away and the parents have to come get it for the first offense.
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aka GalaxyClassUSSEnterpriseNCC1701D But my friends call me Darren
I have lost a sister to text messaging, so yes, I totally believe it, it's like crack for jr. high and young highschoolers
we want the old Kai! "bring sexy back, vote Classic Kai"

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14,000? And I thought I texted a lot. The number has decreased a lot since Brian and I moved in together (and got hitched), but when we were dating I would send at least 100-200 a day. Most of those were when he and/or I were at work. I text super fast and it was faster, easier, and a little more work friendly to shoot off a quick "did you see the news" or trade Simpsons or Family Guy quotes.

I hate talking on the phone, I have the lowest amount of minutes available through Sprint, and I have never even come close to using them all. Everyone in my life texts- my parents, the in-laws, and virtually every friend and coworker.


However:

I spell everything out and puncuate, like I'm doing now. And I have a full keyboard... now anyways, I had to text the hard way until a month ago. No T9 for me.
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Jan 12 2009, 07:47 PM
Heather
Jan 12 2009, 12:48 PM
We have texting turned off on my royal highness's phone. She thinks it's cruel and unusual punishment but I'm not paying a bunch of extra money every month for her to text in class.

:wtf: How does she manage that while in school? At Kellie's high school they'll take the phone away and the parents have to come get it for the first offense.

They have to catch them first....this young texting generation has become so exceedingly adept at firing off a message, that they could almost make a speed-related Olympic event out of it.
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