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| Text Messages - Blew my Mind I was reviewing phone upgrades and reading customer reviews when I came across this post.
"I have had this phone about two weeks and I love it, I am a 15 year old kid and I have around 17,000 texts a month and this phone is great for texting."
If this is even possible it blew my mind to say the least. | |
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BlitzenZeus
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| Re: Text Messages - Blew my Mind The tweens these days, twentish + teens, will have im conversations instead of talking, and the more ironic part is that these sms conversations can cost more than talking more than a few minutes on the phone while taking three times longer if they are not free.
I don't like them for their 140 character limit, but these tweens will go back, and forth with parts of conversations all the time that might only be a few characters. They don't care as long as they are free with a plan, or somebody else is paying the bill.
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Alcohol
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join:2003-05-26
Somerset, NJ
| He's lying.
»Texting Champ Winner
This person just won a competition and she [only] sends/receives 14,000 monthly. I doubt your guy sends 17,000.
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Alcohol
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Somerset, NJ | Re: Text Messages - Blew my Mind Is that 13k a month for your son? | |
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Alcohol
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Somerset, NJ | Re: Text Messages - Blew my Mind It's hard to believe 13k a month since his kid isn't allowed to text at school and has to stop at 10pm at night. That only gives him 7-8 hours a day.
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Smokey
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join:2003-05-20
Va Beach
clubs: | I have an ex who would burn through 20k a month. I never got above 10k but I wouldn't reply to lots of texts.
I am now a recovering texter, having only sent or received 103 texts last month.
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slckusr
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join:2003-03-17
Maumee, OH
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1 edit | 14k is good amount of texting for someone that age. i seen upwards of 40k texts before. but 8-15k is pretty normal anymore.
The winner of a competition showed she could text that much in just 2 days. these kids get 30 days to do the same, and school/bedtime doesnt stop them from texting. | |
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| i2Fuzzy
join:2009-02-25
Keller, TX
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| Re: Text Messages - Blew my Mind Yet another reason my kids won't get cell phones except prepaid phones for school trips.
The most I've ever sent/received in a month was around 3000. That was before I started buying smartphones instead of just flip phones. Nowadays it's around 100-300.
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snipper_cr
join:2002-01-22
Wheaton, IL
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| Wow, and I thought my 200-300 a month was extensive... Although I've always been careful since only recently (within past 2 years) have I had a text messaging plan. Before that it was pay as you go and mommy and daddy didn't pay for my cell phone service like a vast majority of people tweens+teens+twenties. I know people who have graduated college and their parents STILL pay their cell phone (and car insurance, and daily living expenses). [/rant] Sorry.
But yes, 17,000 texts a month... thats... pretty impressive.
Thats 566/day (more than I send/receive in a MONTH!)
23/hour
Thats almost a text message every-other minute... and thats in a 24 hour time period! I assume that kid gets at least SOME sleep.
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