Not really.

Post #302,245 by folkert 1/12/09 9:45:51 AM Reply	Not really. My 16yr old texts 5400 a month every month without fail. Last month though with school break... 11,000.
Post #302,247 by drook 1/12/09 10:05:02 AM Reply	Umm ... Even the lower number works out to slightly less than one every five minutes for 16 hours every day. And this is your proof that the other example is not WTF-worthy? -- Drew
Post #302,248 by beepster 1/12/09 10:28:37 AM Reply	Re: Umm ... I've recently handed a phone to a 13 yo female. I did sign for extra for unlimited text..and I've seen spurts of a dozen messages in a 2 minute span...and considering its a pay for inbound and outbound...I must say I don't doubt the numbers in the thousands per month. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #302,251 by drook 1/12/09 12:08:58 PM Reply	At the risk of sounding like an old fogey Jesus Christ, pick up the fucking phone and call already! -- Drew
Post #302,255 by dmcarls 1/12/09 3:48:31 PM Reply	Re: At the risk of sounding like an old fogey As my teenage daughter would say - "you're OLD - you just don't GET IT." (She texts 6K-7K messages monthly)
Post #302,259 by folkert 1/12/09 4:53:39 PM Reply	DING DING DING. Cheating on tests... from inside pockets. School it demanding phones be ON the DESK in plain view or handed into the teacher OFF for the test duration.
Post #302,264 by beepster 1/12/09 5:37:08 PM Reply	No cell phones out of book bag And they must be powered off during school hours. If found, taken and parents called. That's the school policy here. Sort of like getting on a plane. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #302,260 by Ashton 1/12/09 4:54:16 PM Reply	At the certainty of being one -- Methinks this fad is == precisely equivalent to ybidybyibyot, in igpay atinlay: and all the successive shrthnds beloved of yout -- in their instinctive pecking-away at the pecksniffs who Would homogenize them into becoming Just Like the evull Them. Rest case. BUT - inconclusive ... as to whether the larger implication, that of substituting the {shallow} 'facil'-ity of so-called multi-tasking for: acquiring an ability to concentrate and achieve Depth, in at least one of said -tasks -??- shall be the final Cost. I know where I come down on this trade-off. But that doesn't matter -- only species survival is at stake; no biggie as, We'll always have ~~Paris~~ The Termites, waiting now eons to replace us, to grow an opposed thumb and invent the Antiproton Bomb. Wash-rinse- ... Checkmate.
Post #302,265 by static 1/12/09 5:45:00 PM Reply	Those calculations have a flaw: Most phones let you send a single SMS to multiple recipients. But 1x SMS to 4x recipients is really sent (and billed!) as 4x SMS. It just takes much less to enter it in than 4x SMS. :-) Wade.

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