US News Teen sends 14,528 text messages, dad gets 440 page bill

[enouwee]

Greg Hardesty's teenage daughter managed to send 14,528 text messages last month. When he received his 440 page AT&T wireless phone bill, he thought it was a mistake. The dad, age 45, said "First I laughed. I thought 'That's insane. That's impossible.' And I immediate whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible." He found out that it was, but just barely.

Reina, his 13-yr old daughter, would've had to send text message at the rate of 484 per day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour. When the father asked "Who are you texting anyway? Your entire school?" She replied, "A lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time."

Teen sends 14,528 text messages in a month

www.smh.com.au

 

[kingbdogz]

Woah! I rarely even text once a day...

 

[Vestras]

Oh my fucking god. I'd just tell her to stop writing to me if I was the friend and I was recieving a text message every 2 min.

 

[UndeadDragon]

Wow a 440 page bill... I bet he was pissed off

 

[Romek]

I get into text 'convos' every few days. I manage to send a text every 30 seconds or so.

I have 600 texts, not much. But I never go over that limit.
Hasn't she ever heard of MSN? Doesn't she talk to friends in school or something? =|

 

[monoVertex]

Having those kinds of text convos, I get into those too, but check out the numbers 484 messages a day? I barely reached 100 messages in 5 days, conversing with my gf, a while ago and thought that was much .

 

[FireCat]

Omg that was a lot... Well I know one who send 10,000 text message last year..
But over 14,000 and only 1 month, that's crazy

 

[Mac Dre]

Uhh why is this news? This isn't even very impressive haha its not even hard to get that many..

 

[w/e]

Uhh why is this news? This isn't even very impressive haha its not even hard to get that many..

Yes it is.

 

[thewrongvine]

Uhh why is this news? This isn't even very impressive haha its not even hard to get that many..

Haha... funny. The average for teens is only 2,000, rounded up, per month. This was 14,000, rounded down, per month.

~Hai-Bye-Vine~

 

[Mac Dre]

Yes it is.

Maybe if your have no friends

 

[sqrage]

Maybe if your have no friends

I think you lack a real social life if you do nothing but text people all day.

Keyword: real

 

[Mac Dre]

Ya or you could just be sick and have nothing better to do. But that works to.

 

[DDRtists]

Mac Dre, it is NOWHERE NEAR easy to get 14,528 text messages in a SINGLE MONTH. Don't kind yourself, and don't act like it is easy.

 

[Mac Dre]

Umm why are you shit talking me? It's really not that hard, you can easily text more then 4 times a minute, thats recieving and sending which makes up to 8 a minute, with only having to send 1 text in 2 minutes to make 14,000 really isn't that tough. My sister got a 300 something $ bill when she didn't have unlimited. You do realize that the amount it shows on your bill is messages sent and received right?

 

[esb]

I'd rather have normal conversations and enjoy my life. And not through texting 4 times a minute -_-
That's once every 15 seconds, which leaves time for nothing else. Sad life I would say.

 

[sqrage]

The article says sends, not sent and received. And a $300 bill would mean about.... -30 for the plan so $270, I'd say each text is about 15 cents, which would only be like 1800 texts, sent AND received. Now imagine 16 times that since it's only sent.

 

[Mac Dre]

The phone company puts sends and receives into the same group, there not seperate. And im done arguing you guys are obviously right peace out.

 

[Varine]

I used to get into text fights with my ex. Those are so stupid....

 

[esb]

I would love to text though (no phone). Usually in class, get's boring in there sometimes lol.
But not a 24/7 thing.