Teens Texts 14,528 Messages In One Month
Now your child doesn't look so bad with their few hundred messages a month right? Can you imagine!!
A 13 year old girl sent a record breaking 14,528 text messages in one month forcing AT&T to mail out a 440 page bill to her parents. At first, the father thought it was a big joke, but then got down on his hands and knees and thanked the LORD that he has an unlimited plan for $30! Otherwise, the family would have owed almost $3,000 for his daughter's messaging alone.
"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.
The girl just doesn't stop - even when she is sitting right next to her friends.
Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were
singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her.
Average teens clock in at around 1,700 texts a month by the way.
WOW!
300 points
I'm surprised this hasn't happened to my sister. My niece seems to never look up from that phone.
34175 points
Brutal! Social skills must be really declining among teens.
18832 points
This is the time to take away the phone and make her realize that talking is a skill she is going to need at some point in the future. That is a whole lot of texting.
7500 points
wonder what her wpm speed is...
22235 points
I wonder if she is capable of having a normal conversation with another human being. I have heard the joke about being mute if you sit on your hands. This takes that joke to a whole new level.
1160 points
LOL. I'm sorry but that is just flat out amazing. I thought I was bad with my 2500 (or more... i hate actually talking talking. I would text for everything if I could get away with it.) but that one ... wow...
I send about 20 a month because I do this strange thing called talking.
If I was her parents I'd put her on Pay As You Go and make her pay for it! She'd definitely cut down on texts then.
At thirteen, what could she possibly be texting THAT much about? I would have definitely taken away her phone long before that. Awful.
One every two minutes? While she's in school they're allowing that?
2965 points
I assume she's 'sneaking' to do it. But it does make you stop and think...if she's texting, she's not paying attention. And on that same train of thought...how does she get her homework or chores done if the phone is glued to her fingers that much?
I'd take the phone away and tell her to go outside and play. lol
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not that it makes it okay.....but the story vera linked from said she was bored while on winter break. so she wasn't in class.
2965 points
My son's friends are always texting. My husband and I refuse to even get texting. We don't allow it...period. My son (who is 16) complains about it, but that's just too bad. When he's an adult and paying the cell phone bill, he can get whatever he wants...lol. Personally, I think he's lucky to even have a cell phone. Quite honestly, if it weren't for him driving and playing sports and needing to get a hold of me (and vice versa), he wouldn't even have the cell phone. My sister in law is 8 and she got one (with texting) for Christmas. I think that's just plain nuts.
ITA with EVERYTHING you said. I have a daughter...she is only a baby right now...but there will be NO texting in my house. I feel like punching people up side their heads when I see them texting at really inappropriate moments. Like, "What's the matter with you!! Someone is speaking to you!! Show some respect!! IDIOT!!". I send about 1 text message a month, at most! I'm only 29, but the disconnect between myself and those only a few years younger makes me feel so OLD!
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Crazy! I send a few thousand a month and I thought I was bad!
Actually my 17 yr old cousin broke that record, he had 17,562 txt last month! When his mom told me I couldn't believe it until I looked at his bill. That's too crazy!
Yea, I sent 17,000 when I used AIM on my phone and text messages. whew.. thnak god for unlimited
1470 points
Ridiculous and horrifying - take the phone away!
I agree, ridiculous. My daughter is 14 and I can't even fathom her texting that much. Did her parents not notice she was never speaking? I also agree that teens nowadays aren't learning good social skills. If they're not texting, they're sending silly messages on MySpace. They don't learn to write letters, or have a normal conversation (without using "like", or ending every single sentence as a question....."Yeah, I like, went to the mall today? And, like, saw this very like, cute guy?"
I don't understand why teenagers need cell phones! It's stupid. I didn't need one until I went to college and even then, I am paying the pill. Freaking ridiculous. My boyfriend's cousin has a phone, with the texting plan of course and she doesn't even leave the house! She doesn't play sports or anything, so she really doesn't need one. My boyfriend even tried talking to her about it (her parents don't really have money to pay the bill, so the grandparents pay it) and she said she doesn't care because she doesn't pay the bill! How rude.
*BILL* haha, not pill.
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Why would he get a 400 page bill for that? Texts aren't broken down individually like calls are. That's odd. My daughter and friends barely talk on the phone like in the "old days", they text constantly. I nearly fell over the first time I saw how many texts she was sending in a month.
THATS NOTHIN!
i sent almost SEVENTEEN THOUSAND last month
This teeny bopper needs an intervention.
LOSER, NERD, PATETIC and i don't know what else!
you text message with your friend sit next to you??
Good grief! Does she go to school??
That is nothing...my daughter averages around 20,000 a month....in October she texted 26,000...
410 pages?! Thanks for killing all the trees, assholes!
"Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her."
Is she f'n retarded? Man, if she was my daughter I slap the shit out of her. Stupid kids now and these days. I hate kids!!! Whenever I see these stupid shits with their phones I just wanna take their phones and throw it at them!!
64150 points
Holy crap! she's addicted!
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Frig! I average around 350 a month, and even thats a strech. Over here, most teens go on this cellphone plan that allows them to send 2000 txts for $10 a month, and as most send more than that, it's common to see teens with 3 cellphones, so they can send 6000 txts for $30. It's insane!
New generation is de-evolving perhaps not technically but socially, physically and emotionally.
Go somewhere where many teens are at one table and see how many are actually texting someone that is actually there at the same table. Before texting became cheaper (or a on plans) they would talk to the other person on a cell. There is a plus side, no interruptions but actually takes longer to get any idea across, no interaction and spelling skills are lost (if they learned any at all by texting in class or otherwise). Hopefully texting will give them something they can use in future employment, but it won't because of the spelling & loss of social skills.
Button pushers that parents/adults made possible, show me one adult who sells the plans, phones or manufacturer who is complaining with the money that's being genarated from the cell industry, exactly, they don't. Let it happen and you can't complain people.
How many posters here had to use a calculator to post.
my brother had 101,000 in a month but we have unlimated
That's amateur stuff...I text 1 million every month!! Stupid kid
im 18 and average at about 10,000 a month.
i can only send around 3000 a month bcos thats all that my plan lets me send!! One month i used 5000 and could ave used more but i go and see my friends and dont sit ther textin them wen ther sat next to me!!
wwhy is this girls parents lettin this girl text all the time ..
get a grip it anit normall .. get a fcukin life x
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