Comments on: 13-year-old girl sends 14,528 text messages in a single month

By: desposy

desposy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:29:17 +0000

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

By: stephani

stephani — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:47:45 +0000

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

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By: Kamryn

Kamryn — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:30:22 +0000

I cant beelieve you have sent that many text messages in a month…..I can only send 2,000 in a month….WOW

By: Ryan Scheel

Ryan Scheel — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:47:46 +0000

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….

By: Sid

Sid — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:52:17 +0000

Impressive but she’s obviously sending multiple texts at once.

By: Apples

Apples — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:37:04 +0000

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.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:40:04 +0000

Someone’s a tad bitter, aren’t they?

By: MaebyFunke

MaebyFunke — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:43:45 +0000

I’ve sent well over 30,000 in a month before… This little girl’s got nothing on me!

By: dAtkRaK

dAtkRaK — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:40:53 +0000

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.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:28:19 +0000

I know, this generation should just jump 6 liter V8s over railroad tracks right?

By: KidKobun

KidKobun — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:12:01 +0000

I am not blaming the youth, I’m just disgusted with them. I suppose if there is anyone to blame it is the parents.

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By: KidKobun

KidKobun — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:20:13 +0000

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.

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By: greatslack

greatslack — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:57:46 +0000

seems appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBflm_S61Wg

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[...] 13-year old girl sends 14,528 text messages in a month – I have a 13-year old daughter, and I thought her 809 text message were a lot… [...]

By: Josh Smith

Josh Smith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:48:41 +0000

America, This is your future.

By: Jonas Christensen

Jonas Christensen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:12:45 +0000

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.

By: A Strange Web

A Strange Web — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:42:28 +0000

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….

By: The comments

The comments — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:49:33 +0000

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..

By: NoN

NoN — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:42:03 +0000

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

By: exapted

exapted — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:52:00 +0000

Think they wanted to get onto the news?

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