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WTF? OMG 15k TXTs in 1 Mo.

The only thing worse than perpetual thumb cramps is the astonishing lack of parenting that would allow a child to send almost 15,000 text messages from her cellphone in 1 month. I hope she had an unlimited texting plan.

From the NYPost here:

Greg Hardesty didn’t LOL when he got his teen daughter’s cellphone statement.

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

The girl messages a core of “four obsessive texters” – all girls between the ages of 12 and 13 – on her LG phone.

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.

Almost 2000 text messages per month average?  That’s crazy.  Whatever happened to just talking on the phone?

Dr. Jones

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One thought on “WTF? OMG 15k TXTs in 1 Mo.

  • OMG, I thought my kid was bad. We had to get unlimited texting because of her. She claims to “HATE” talking on the phone. When I was her age, all I ever did was talk on the phone.

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