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gah. "Girl, 13, sends 14,528 texts in a month." -- (link)

Posted by JaxSean (aka JaxSean) Jan 11 '09, 21:37

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My daughter would be grounded for a year if a $2,905 cell phone bill. (www.upi.com)

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PrincessCY hit just over 6000 one month. She lost a phone once and it took her 3 days to get used to NOT texting. I swear her fingers would twitch. - CrankYanker Jan 11, 22:47 4
- See, at that point, I would've sent my daughter to a convent. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 11, 23:19 1
  - Didn't you see Doubt? The guys there are more dangerous than the ones she'd meet on the streets of L.A. -- nm - secretslacker Jan 12, 04:15
- Its been said that you start 'feeling' your phone buzz even when, or especially when you don't have it on you, sorta like a amputee 'feels' their... - zeitgeist Jan 11, 22:57 1
  - The audio ring does something similar. In that case, your mind is processes random noises and interprets them as a ring. - psilotum Jan 12, 00:06
I can hardly wait 'til my three nieces hit high school. - ReluctantCynic Jan 11, 22:36 5
- My three nieces are in high school. - nubby Jan 11, 23:13 1
  - God, do I feel old now. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 11, 23:16
- seriously, tell her to never EVER send a boyfriend a nude shot, let anybody shoot one, - zeitgeist Jan 11, 23:04 2
  - Oh hell yes ... - ReluctantCynic Jan 11, 23:07 1
    - Only befriend people you know in real life. -- nm - psilotum Jan 11, 23:58
2.24 per minute per 18 hour day, does it count one text to multiple people as multiple texts? - zeitgeist Jan 11, 21:58 7
- y -- nm - psilotum Jan 11, 23:35 1
  - lol -- nm - psilotum Jan 12, 00:42
- You can totally get more than 2.24 texts in per minute, especially since it would count the replies back. -- nm - Qale Jan 11, 22:16
- can you text to more than one person at a time? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 11, 21:59 3
  - Yes, although I think it's limited to 25 people at once on some systems. -- nm - jnine Jan 11, 22:07 1
    - lets not forget, you get billed for texts received too, so with a circle of friends you could get hundreds -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 11, 22:10
  - I have no idea but I don't know why not if you set up an address book with names in a folder, I know you can email to a named folder and it will go... - zeitgeist Jan 11, 22:03
And i thought the 1500 my sisters did a month was a lot -- nm - Karl_S @ Work Jan 11, 21:51
that's alomst 1 every 2 minutes, if you count sleeping. Not that hard to do. - Beryllium Jan 11, 21:40 5
- So who has the most posts in a 30-day time frame on ST? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 11, 21:49 4
  - that's a pretty complicated dataset to chug through, t he way you phrased it -- nm - Beryllium Jan 11, 21:51 3
    - bah. - JaxSean Jan 11, 21:57 2
      - but that query has to be repeated for each poster, for each day, the way you phrased it - Beryllium Jan 11, 21:58 1
        
        No slacking! Just do it! :) -- nm - JaxSean Jan 11, 22:02

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