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Teen Sends 14,528 Text Messages
How would you feel if your wireless bill had nearly the same number of pages as a ream of paper? Needless to say when Greg Hardesty received a 440-page bill from AT&T, he was shocked. Upon examining the bill, Hardesty discovered that his 13-year-old teenage daughter, Reina, managed to send 14,528 text messages last month.At first, Hardesty thought the bill was impossible, so he whipped out his calculator to see if it was even feasible to send that many messages in a month. Turns out, it is but barely. To reach this quantity of messages, Reina would have had to send 484 text messages per day, which amounts to about one message every two minutes of every waking hour.Like many parents would do after receiving such a bill, Hardesty went to his daughter and asked, “Who are you texting anyway? Your entire school?” She replied that a lot of her friends have unlimited texting plans and that they pretty much text all of the time. More specifically, she frequently texts a core of “four obsessive texters,” who are all girls between the ages of 12 and 13.
Reina really does text what seems like all the time. She recently had a karaoke birthday party; while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend who was sitting right next to her.
After being told how many messages she logged, Reina had to tell her friends—by text, of course. Reina attributes part of her high texting use to the fact that she was on winter break last month and “was bored.”
Fortunately for Reina’s parents, she has an unlimited text messaging plan for $30 per month. Otherwise, at a rate of 20 cents per message, Mr. Hardesty would have owed AT&T $2,905.60. Since receiving the bill, Hardesty and his ex-wife have placed restrictions on Reina’s cell phone use, and have ruled that she cannot text after dinner.
484 pesan perhari
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"anda mendapatkan undian mobil.... hubungi dr. xxxxx di hp 081xxxxxx
"kirim saja uangnya ke rekening....."
THIS KID’S A TEXT MANIAC
apanya @noodles maniac?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. sumber : http://nypost.com/2009/01/11/this-kids-a-text-maniac/
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