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New site? Maybe some day.
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Greg Hardesty didn't "LOL" when he got his 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.
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burn the whole family's house down with them in it |
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When I was 13 the most complicated piece of technology I owned was a cd walkman and a stack of Sepultura cds. If I had a state of the art cellphone, and spent that much time/money texting people my parents would have either turned me into compost or shipped me off to the military. |
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Why is this news if they have unlimited texts? Whoopdefreakingdo. |
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AT&T not is green! THEY'RE WASTING PAPER ON IDIOT KIDS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO SOCIALIZE PROPERLY!
BOO TO YOU AT&T....BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
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When I was 13 the most complicated piece of technology I owned was a cd walkman and a stack of Sepultura cds. If I had a state of the art cellphone, and spent that much time/money texting people my parents would have either turned me into compost or shipped me off to the military. |
I think I had a pager and thought I was pretty fucking cool. I got it from Smart Beep in Quincy.
Why do I still remember this? |
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Back in my day, we passed notes in class and if the teacher caught us, s/he would read the notes out loud to the class and then sent us to the principal's office. |
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AT&T not is green! THEY'RE WASTING PAPER ON IDIOT KIDS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO SOCIALIZE PROPERLY!
BOO TO YOU AT&T....BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
it was an online statement. no trees were harmed by this teen's idiocy. |
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xmikex: Oates’ Military Academy in Alaska? |
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Back in my day, we passed notes in class and if the teacher caught us, s/he would read the notes out loud to the class and then sent us to the principal's office. |
now if they did that, there would be lawsuits. |
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when i was 13 the most up to date piece of technology i had was a walkman. i think my parents even still had a rotary phone. |
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<[Jan 12,2009 2:17pm - the_reverend]
xmikex: Oates’ Military Academy in Alaska?>
is that where ted was supposed to go in bill and ted? |
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That kind of crap would never go down in my family. Her parents should make her get a job and pay for her own text messages. |
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AT&T not is green! THEY'RE WASTING PAPER ON IDIOT KIDS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO SOCIALIZE PROPERLY!
BOO TO YOU AT&T....BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
it was an online statement. no trees were harmed by this teen's idiocy. |
ok...............................................................carry on |
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i don't like when people text me.... my phone is paid for by my work, which is great, but i can't text. |
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I hate when people call me.
I text people tons of useful things... like:
TO: Mark Fucking Richares 1/1/09 0K
Me: Drink up faggot
and
TO: Msd 12/4
Me: You in jail yet for sucing little kid's dix?
and I also get updated by dwyer about.. er.. just about everything. BTW, you simply have to meet his new gf nikki. |
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When I was 13 the most complicated piece of technology I owned was a cd walkman and a stack of Sepultura cds. If I had a state of the art cellphone, and spent that much time/money texting people my parents would have either turned me into compost or shipped me off to the military. |
I think I had a pager and thought I was pretty fucking cool. I got it from Smart Beep in Quincy.
Why do I still remember this? |
i had a SmartBeep too! |
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i hate the people who text, heads down, the entire time they hang out with a group of friends....what is so important? Hang out with the person your texting if you enjoy talking to them so much.
also....what happened to just....calling someone?? If you have that much to say.....call them.
fuck this girl....her and all the other brain dead text zombies. |
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i hate when i'm hanging out with someone and they text other people more than they talk to me. a text here and there is fine, but come on. |
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texting is good when you just need to get a certain piece of information across and you dont want to get stuck in a long conversation you dont wanna have. |
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I hate when people consistently talk on the phone while working (like the guy I've been working with the last so many months does). Once in a while is okay, but come on. |
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I had to call my company to put a block b/c too many motherfuckers kept texting me. This geek at work texts his friends like every 10 mins, it's fucking annoying plus it makes us look bad. |
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