RSSTeen racks up 14,528 texts in one month
By Queuebot in Gadgets, Hacks & Mods on Jan 15, 2009 at 4:33 am
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Staxeon
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.
Guybrush Threepwood
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?
Susan
See article about girl in Florida: Clermont girl texts 35,000 messages in 1 month
SenorMysterioso
Just call someone if you have that much to say. I do a lot of texting but that is out of controll
Joe
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
Ashley
Psh, who needs 2 pay attention in school? My bffs are WAY more important!
Briannana
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.
stevemarth
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.
Justin
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
PK
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.
PK
And it’s not hard since you can just reply “lol”, “aw”, “cya” or “O_o” as a message.
XuYu
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
Gail Pink
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…
Camilla
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.
Corinne
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.
Evilbeagle
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.
DOJ
damn, Evilbeagle, you questioned someones ability to spell, but didn’t misspell anything.
what is the internet coming to?
lala
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…
sniggitysnags
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
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In California a 13 year old girl was able to rack up an astounding 14,528 text messages in one month. For those keeping track that’s 484 a day which breaks down to 20 an hour or 1 every three minutes, for the entire month!
alison
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