Man alive! This young lady sent an astonishing 14,528 text messages in a single month, embarrassing her entire family, yes, but giving the New York Post the opportunity to use “lol” and “omg” in its story. It’s a great paper, really.
The girl, 13-year-old Reina, from California, sent the texts during her winter break because she was “bored.” Reading a book is out of the question for this girl, apparently.
Her dad, who’s a journalist at the local newspaper, did the math, and concluded that she must have sent 484 text messages per day. That’s one text every two minutes.
It’s a good thing her dad has the $30 AT&T unlimited text messages plan, otherwise he’d owe the company $2,905.60!
Ah, youth. The carefree days of sending text messages to your dumb friends, for no reason other than that you’re “bored.”
That’s just sickening. Yet another reason for me to be disgusted with today’s youth.
Someone’s a tad bitter, aren’t they?
Bitter? No..
It is disgusting and in no way should be receiving media attention for any other reason than education on how the upcoming generations have little interest in intellectual activities.
This is not a blanket statement for all children. But, sending that amount of text messages – at the age of 13 – is not a good sign. I highly doubt any significant, intelligent conversations were happening (unless “omg so bored. sup?”, suddenly counts).
Health reasons should be a main concern for that family. Developing severe arthritis and/or degeneration of her thumb joints is a very real thing.
With a journalist father, you’d think they’d encourage her to do more with her life than text message.
i think she needs to calm down wit just sending one word messages.. I send 5000 texts out a month. I have unlimited text but that just crazy
I see some of my contemporaries’ behaviour and am ashamed to be part of a generation that wastes so much of their time. But I also know there are plenty like myself who are doing something with their lives and some times even actively make a positive difference to the community. Also, being a youth in my generation, I see the lives and the affects of parents and society in general has upon them, meaning its not all there fault
Before you come out with blanket statements like this in the future, please think of the other side of the coin
14,528 texts / 3000 cents = just under 5 cents per text. That still doesn’t quite seem like a steal.
@KidKobun, whatever man, at least she’s not playing WoW.
I think the division goes the other way – 3000 / 14,528 texts = .206 cents/text – That is a better deal.
At a nickel a text, 14,528 texts would cost 72640 cents or $726.40. At that rate – $30 is a hell of a deal.
Sending text messages non-stop vs. playing WoW. Let’s see, we already know that her father is paying her initial cell phone bill in conjunction with an extra $30 for unlimited texting when WoW is $15 a month or something like that. Yes, there’s a difference. Also, when I was her age (oh God I am starting to sound like my parents) I already had a job working like 20-25 hours a week. She’s 13; she should either get her little @$$ outside and go play with friends or get her involved in sports or something. Also, what about homework..? If anything I would be concerned as a parent.
Again, this is why I am fed up with today’s kids and their parents being so passive.
kidkobun, relax man. i dont know how you think playing video games interacting with others via a violent fantasy world is healthier than a social interaction with friends/peers. you should let her parents handle it. besides, every upcoming generation gets their own disapproval by the older generation.
I’m not saying that playing WoW is better…just cheaper. And if you’re idea of social interaction with friends/peers is sending a 14,528 text messages to those peers then you may want to rethink your definition of social interaction.
More like reclusive interaction.
Well,I’m lucky too!
I had the unlimited data plan :)
Otherwise,I’d pay a lot more..
Good for her – just a bit a fun with her friends. I’m assuming there were quite a few mass texts sent that made up large part of this figure.
Speaking of mass texts, I’m going to send one right referencing this achievement.
(On second thought, she sent a lot of texts. Wow.)
Did she have thumbdinitis?
OMG. I send fewer than 300 text messages a month. I’m a bit impressed with this girl, though. They’ll probably use her in a marketing campaign or something.
Is that her dad sitting next to her?
Think they wanted to get onto the news?
14528 / 30 days = 484.2667 approx
484.2667 / 24 hours = 20.1778 approx
20.1778 / 60 min = 0.3363 approx
so it’s like one (1) text message every three (3) minutes…
so what? that little girls needs help! xD
The really interesting thing is how fast persons start “blaming” today’s youth. I think we have to accept that they live their lives a bit different than ours. If we compare those to our own, we are bound to find things that we didn’t do. They ways to interact, communicate and socialize have expanded to include several medias (not only in real life). Is this so bad? There is always a villain destroying the youth of today, yesterday it was TV, the day before that it was role-playing games/board games then radio/music, dance, books etc..
I am not blaming the youth, I’m just disgusted with them. I suppose if there is anyone to blame it is the parents.
That evil rock’n'roll is just going to ruin today’s youth. Oh wait a minute, that was the 50’s. All that ‘texting’ is going to make their thumbs fall off and melt their brains.
The world changes and surprisingly most teenagers manage to grow up to be decent human beings. That is a lot of texts though….
Hey, guy. We’re usually accepting of the historical influence things like, say, rock ‘n roll or the sexual revolution had on society because they weren’t terribly damaging. Text messaging (or, I guess, obsessive text messaging) is just one small part of a much larger, much more frightening problem in modern society. Unfortunately, said problem is unquantifiable and undefinable, merely because we’re mired in it (Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle). But, we can easily see some of the symptoms: the degradation of the English language (viz. “lol”, “omg”, etc.) and in the importance of proper grammar; the precipitous drop in young people (and, given our previous President, old folks as well) who identify themselves as “readers”; the rising youth obesity epidemic and a similar loss in the number of young people who take part in active “play”… the list goes on, and they all point to an uncomfortably apathetic and unhealthy youthful population. You can rationalize it away all you want to, you can call me some sort of curmudgeon who stands in the way of progress, but the fact remains—the progenitors of “sexting” and camwhoring, are, by any objective standard, lacking. I’m sorry, but a culture that not only allows, but encourages the kind of behavior cited in the article is detestable.
Just to compare – According to recent studies, 60 percent (!) of Danish people between 13 and 24 years of age send more than 300 text messages a day…
Thes past week, actually, there have been discussions in the media about it causing osteoarthritis in several cases.
America, This is your future.
seems appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBflm_S61Wg
I know, this generation should just jump 6 liter V8s over railroad tracks right?
I’ve sent well over 30,000 in a month before… This little girl’s got nothing on me!
Impressive but she’s obviously sending multiple texts at once.
14,500 huh? That’s over 9000….of what I have posted as IRC messages in the Firefox support channel. And that is just one month? It’s taken me years to get the amount of posts I have….
I cant beelieve you have sent that many text messages in a month…..I can only send 2,000 in a month….WOW