Jan 13 2009
This Is Crazy
I read a story about a 13 yr old girl in California who sent a record 14,528 text messages in one month. All I could think was, this is nuts. They say the statement from the phone company was 440 pages long.
Now her father was dumbfounded to say the least. And of course thought that the phone company had made a mistake. But then they did the numbers, and it came out to a whopping 484 messages a day or one every two minutes. This girl is so obsessed with texting she even was doing it at a birthday party. And the person she was texting was sitting next to her. Thank God her family got the unlimited phone plan. Because at .20 cents per message it would have cost them almost 3,000 U.S. dollars. Ouch, that hurts. I couldn’t imagine text messaging anyone that much.
The article then goes on to state some numbers like the average 13 to 17 yr old sends 1,742 messages a month. And the average adult only sends about 200 messages a month. Who has that much free time on their hands. Have we really become that obsessed with our phones that we block out the rest of the world to send that many messages?
The good news is that her parents have set restrictions on her phone usage……no text messaging after dinner. Ya that is really a restriction. How about making her get a paper route or something and make her pay her own bill. Maybe then she will think twice about sending that many messages in one month.
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Unbelievable. My neice is the same way. I on the other hand, being the age I am takes me more time to try and text something than if I just called the person
oh. my. gawsh. all I can think of “all those poor trees that died just to become the phone bill!!??!”
LOL I can’t believe she actually did that. I can’t imagine anyone texting that much! Yep, like jodapoet, I just pick up the phone and call. So much easier.