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13 year old girl text messages 14,500 times in one month - That's One every two minutes every waking hour.

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

All he could think was "OMG!"

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.

"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.

"Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?" he asked.

"Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time," she explained.

She messages a core of "four obsessive texters" - all girls between the ages of 12 and 13 - on her LG phone.

Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her.

She even texted her friends to brag about the high number of text messages she had logged when her parents got the statement.

Her texting soared last month because "it was winter break and I was bored," Reina told her parents.

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.

Hardesty admits he himself punches in 900 messages a month - 700 more than average for his age group, according to Nielsen.

Hardesty and his ex-wife have since placed restrictions on Reina's cellphone use, ruling she cannot text after dinner.

Alright people I want photoshops...

[PlasmaDavid]

It's definately due for one.

People who spend their lives on their phones should be burnt. Damned people who spend more time on their phone than with people in the same room as them ( here's looking at you Catfish)

[ENKC]

Damn it, if I had any shooping ability a Moutain Due would totally be in their hands right now.

[trin]

ENKC, on Jan 14 2009, 04:28 PM, said:

Damn it, if I had any shooping ability a Moutain Due would totally be in their hands right now.

Or that guys wingdang.

People like her are witches of this day and age- burn them at the bloody stake.

And phone companies shouldn't charge for sms's cause they go in the empty packets which your phone sends out all the time.

[Obscurus]

IDK, my BFF Jill?


Good on her. Atleast you know shes good with her fingers.

[indevelopment]

Dad figured that introducing his daughter to booze at 14 would be far cheaper.

[Ninja Catfish]

PlasmaDavid, on Jan 14 2009, 01:04 PM, said:

It's definately due for one.

People who spend their lives on their phones should be burnt. Damned people who spend more time on their phone than with people in the same room as them ( here's looking at you Catfish)

When you're in the first week of a relationship, I'll cut you some slack too k?

And yeah, trin is right. An SMS costs networks next to nothing, it's just sent on spare airwaves or something.
That's a lot of texts, but it's not so bad, it didn't cost too much anyway.

[Nibbler]

/waits on Dew chop.

IMA GONNA EATZ YOUR FINGARS SO U CANNOT TXT NO MOAR!!!!!!!

[santouras]

thankfully she was on a free plan, but still, damn. I looked at my phone and I've sent about 1,000 text messages in the 20 months I've had it.

[PoopiDoggi]

I seem to send about 400 a month >.>

[ENKC]

I've sent maybe... five. In my life.

[LurkerJC]

my first attempt at a dew chop...
i dont have a mobile phone -.-"

[santouras]

actually the next message I send will be the 1000th. I wonder who I should make it to!

[santouras]

a new challenger approaches!

http://www.orlandose...news/local/...0,5867250.story

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Brad Cox of Clermont was surfing the Internet this week when he saw a story about a California girl who had sent and received 14,528 text messages on her cell phone in one month.

"I laughed and thought, 'That's nothing,' " Cox said Tuesday.

Cox's 14-year-old daughter, Emilee, hit 35,000 messages a month twice in the past year. Thank goodness for unlimited plans.

Her peak month was June, when she tallied 35,463 messages, or about 1,182 a day. Assuming she slept eight hours a day, that's about 74 messages an hour, or roughly one coming or going each minute.
"Heyy," Emilee Cox wrote when asked by a Sentinel reporter about her texting through, you guessed it, a text message. "Uhm i'm not sure really. In june i had cheer camp so like alot of my friends had texted me. And when i wasn't at camp i'd text my friends and girls on my team. i don't like talking on the phone so i'd prefer texting people.

"Well it's different things with different people," she wrote. "Like with my cheer friends we talk about cheerleading. Then with friends from school and stuff we'd talk about how our summers were and what we expected high school to be like. And my boyfriend and i talk about random things. He's the main reason my texting is so high becuz we're constantly texting. Lol"

Just before Christmas, Emilee wore out her phone because she was texting so much. Her father switched her to a different provider and got her a phone without a keyboard.

That slowed her texting down a little -- she sent 14,083 in December.

As long as his daughter, a ninth-grader, keeps getting good grades at East Ridge High School, he'll let her keep on texting.

"I think there are much worse habits for her to have," said Cox, who clocked 656 text messages of his own in June. "It keeps her from being bored, and it keeps her out of trouble."

Kristin Wallace, a spokeswoman for Sprint, confirmed Emilee's text tally and said Sprint customers average 268 messages a month.

"It's absolutely amazing," Wallace said. "She must have been texting day and night."

A study by Nielsen found that kids ages 13 to 17 on average send and receive 1,742 messages monthly.

Cox might think his daughter has the fastest fingers around, but she's not even close. A man in India reportedly had 182,689 text messages in a month.

This post has been edited by santouras: 15 January 2009 - 11:20 AM

[James]

PoopiDoggi, on Jan 15 2009, 10:07 AM, said:

I seem to send about 400 a month >.>

The highest I've ever reached was about 536.

Then it's between 300 -> 400 in a month.

It's all capped though, so yeah, not that much in costs.

[John Wayne Gacy]

I get in conversations with people via SMS then I just think 'f*ck it' and ring them. It's much easier.

[Ninja Catfish]

Yeah, an SMS is good for a quick /where are you/ or somehting, but when it needs to get in-depth, i just call, or tell them to get online

[PoopiDoggi]

If it wasn't for internets it would probably be 1000+ >.>

Maybe these girls have restricted internet access?

[Nibbler]

Text messaging requires too much effort.
Need Speech to Txt on mobiles. But by that stage it would be easier actually talking to them

[Iniqius]

J.C, on Jan 15 2009, 10:56 AM, said:

my first attempt at a dew chop...
i dont have a mobile phone -.-"

"and as she drank the due she found all her text addictions dissappear.
"Thanks moutain due!" says dad.

[PlasmaDavid]

Ninja Catfish, on Jan 15 2009, 04:36 PM, said:

Yeah, an SMS is good for a quick /where are you/ or somehting, but when it needs to get in-depth, i just call, or tell them to get online

Well, all bar one

Due is the new ***** >_>

[popolopolous]

I'd like an explanation as to why ***** is wordfiltered out of existence. It has been since 06

[Nighthawk]

You can't handle the explanation!

[PoopiDoggi]

Is that *****?

The vets have hinted at it for ages but we've never gotten the whole story o.o

[djkizza]

santouras, on Jan 15 2009, 01:19 PM, said:

a new challenger approaches!

http://www.orlandose...news/local/...0,5867250.story

So is that total for them both incoming and outgoing? If not, its not that bad... I rack up a lot of sms<s> but Im on the hiptop plan, so its easy to do...

Edit: Gender fix!

This post has been edited by djkizza: 16 January 2009 - 05:09 PM