Teen racks up 14,528 texts in one month

1. Staxeon
   January 15th, 2009 at 6:05 am

   And thats one every three minutes assuming she never slept for a month. I'd bet she was more like sending/receiving a txt every minute.

2. Guybrush Threepwood
   January 15th, 2009 at 7:29 am

   Here in Brazil the cost of a message (SMS) is near 0,12 U$ cents.
   She would be billed by U$ 1743,00.

   Nice, huh?

3. Susan
   January 15th, 2009 at 7:29 am

   See article about girl in Florida: Clermont girl texts 35,000 messages in 1 month

4. SenorMysterioso
   January 15th, 2009 at 8:23 am

   Just call someone if you have that much to say. I do a lot of texting but that is out of controll

5. SenorMysterioso
   January 15th, 2009 at 8:23 am

   -l

6. Joe
   January 15th, 2009 at 9:12 am

   You must have missed the one about the girl in Florida. She sent 35 thousand texts in one month. That works out to 1 per minute (assuming she sleeps 8 hours a night). Here's the link: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-text1409jan14,0,586 7250.story

7. Rocky Rook
   January 15th, 2009 at 9:55 am

   OCD

8. Ashley
   January 15th, 2009 at 10:08 am

   Psh, who needs 2 pay attention in school? My bffs are WAY more important!

9. alison
   January 15th, 2009 at 10:54 am

   idk, my bff rose?

10. Briannana
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:20 am

    Guys, this is waaaay more common than you would actually think. I worked for a T-mobile call center for about 8 months, and I can tell you some horror stories...

    There was this one guy in particular who called in because his daughter had racked up $5,000 in instant messaging charges because she was secretly sending texts to her friends in Europe. Lots of them.

    He literally wept when I told him that my manager said had to pay it all or we would send him to collections. He had been a customer with us for about 12 years and this was the first mistake he had ever made. It wasn't long after that I decided I was through with the soul-sucking lifestyle of a call center.

11. stevemarth
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:24 am

    I'm not an expert by any means in this area, but if she was to send a single message to a group of 5 people, would that count as having sent 5 messages? Because that math works out a whole lot easier as I see it.

12. Justin
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:26 am

    That sucks Briannana. You know what the sad thing is? Text messages cost the phone companies literally nothing.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?_r=2&partner=rs s&emc=rss

13. PK
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    If she has mistaken SMS as IM, which is free, it is pretty easy to hit that mark, provided she is a chatterbox and actually has friends.

14. PK
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    And it's not hard since you can just reply "lol", "aw", "cya" or "O_o" as a message.

15. XuYu
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:41 am

    Cost to phone company for all that texting: nothing.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?_r=4&partner=rs s&emc=rss

16. Gail Pink
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:55 am

    The father, Greg Hardesty, is a college friend of mine. He was talking about this on Face Book a week or so ago and now...it's national news? I wonder if this could somehow be connected to the fact that Greg works for the Orange County Register newspaper? Hmmm...what is the connection...

17. Camilla
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:58 am

    Also, multiple recipients, people. Maybe she was using texts as a sort of collective IM with her friends, so 1 text could count as many.

18. Corinne
    January 15th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Actually, in today's high schools, that's really astounding. I know plenty of people who average over 6000, a few who hit and surpass that 14k, and probably a few who have more. Personally, I average around 100 texts out and 120 texts in every month.

19. Corinne
    January 15th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Erm. I meant "that's not really astounding."*

20. sise
    January 15th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    At my peak, the most txts I ever sent was like 3.500...

    craazy

21. sloane
    January 15th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    Why not just call

22. Evilbeagle
    January 15th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    I hate text messaging. If I get one I call the person back unless I know they are somewhere that they can't take a phone call.

    I wonder if this kid can even spell properly.

23. DOJ
    January 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    damn, Evilbeagle, you questioned someones ability to spell, but didn't misspell anything.

    what is the internet coming to?

24. lala
    January 16th, 2009 at 1:38 am

    Sending the same message to multiple people counts as individual texts, so depending on her network speed and the size of her send list, she could easily text a couple hundred in a matter of minutes. I didn't click the link but if this is the same article I read on CNN last week, the father said he has unlimited texting so money's not the concern. Rather, the lack of social life outside of texting would be a big concern if that were my kid.

    And what is up with the news stations putting so much coverage on this? Are they that hard up for newstertainment? A few weeks ago, the top news of the day was what Jennifer Aniston said regarding her former marriage to Brad Pitt and I was like... 'really?' Genocide, war, cancer, poverty, economic recession, scientific breakthroughs....but CNN's top story was about a 4 year old divorce and now this texting hoo-hah... sad...

25. Evilbeagle
    January 16th, 2009 at 3:57 am

    DOJ, the end is nigh.

26. sniggitysnags
    January 16th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Parents need to learn how to control there kids habits. This is just ridiculous, does this kid not have anything else to do? Like maybe join a club, sport, or something constructive? Hell Dad or Mom, take the girl camping or something where she can, ya know... enjoy this world while she can. I'm just baffled really, ha

27. Becka Lynn
    April 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    The most txts I evr sent wer about 333,888,991

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