Girl, 13, sends 14,528 texts in a month

[Hum]

SILVERADO CANYON, Calif., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A California father says he discovered his 13-year-old daughter sent 484 text messages per day last month -- one message every 2 minutes of every waking hour. :blink:

Greg Hardesty of Silverado Canyon, Calif., told the New York Post his 440-page cell phone bill revealed his daughter Reina had sent an astonishing 14,528 text messages.

"First, I laughed. I thought, 'That's insane, that's impossible,'" said Hardesty, 45, a reporter for The Orange County Register. "And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible."

Hardesty said Reina had messaged a core of "four obsessive texters," all girls between the ages of 12 and 13. Luckily, he was on an unlimited text messaging plan or his bill would have been $2,905 at a rate of 20 cents per message, the Post reported.

Hardesty told the newspaper he and his ex-wife have placed restrictions on Reina's cellphone use, ruling she cannot text after dinner.

When it comes to texting, it appears Reina has much in common with a New Zealand teenager. It was reported last month that Hannah Brooke, 16, of Wellington frequently uses up the 6,000 messages she's allowed each month and borrows phones from friends to keep on texting.

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[D. S. Veteran]

Maybe she has Williams syndrome...

[Rudy]

wow that's sick......my gf's sister also sends quite a bit of text messages.....never ever sent one myself though

[Konstanov]

Maybe she has Williams syndrome...

W.S. makes you highly verbal.

/me puts down WebMD.com

[bjoswald]

That's ridiculous. I must be old fashioned, because I think a 13-year-old doesn't need a cell phone. Hell, I don't think 19-year-olds need them (for the most part). I had one as a teenager, but it was only for emergencies. Think about all the stupid **** they have on them now: cameras, keyboards, video recorders, text messaging, emotes, buddy lists... Why? When someone isn't at their computer, you call them. When they can't answer their phone, you IM them. When they answer neither, you e-mail them. I'm such an old fart.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

And that, fellow readers, is an extreme case of text messaging syndrome.

[shihchiun]

I don't know what's more surprising - that she texts so much, or that her father is just discovering this. You don't go from "normal" texting to 480 messages a day overnight.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Haha. I don't know what's more surprising, the fact that she sent 14,528 text messages in one month or the fact that her dad received a 440 page phone bill.

[lt8480]

440 page phone bill - excellent.

[Colin-uk Veteran]

my gf sends about 10,000ish txts per month, so i dint find it that unusual :p

edit: although, i should add that my gf isnt 13 :p

:ninja:

Edited January 12, 2009 by Colin-uk

[Kronir]

Jeez....I must be getting old when I feel that I don't need to be in constant communication with others. :)

[White Cuban]

talk about microblogging

[.bin]

Wow. I hate SMS'ing. How does she do that? :|

[Unto Darkness]

Damn, she's got some real itchy fingers....

[hawker1986]

Surely the real issue here is that her dad obviously never sees the girl for more than 2 minutes at any one time for him not to have noticed her sending all those texts. Mark one up for good parenting chaps.

Hawker

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Surely the real issue here is that her dad obviously never sees the girl for more than 2 minutes at any one time for him not to have noticed her sending all those texts. Mark one up for good parenting chaps.

Hawker

I shall slap myself for not noticing that. :laugh:

/self slap

Ow!

[D. S. Veteran]

W.S. makes you highly verbal.

/me puts down WebMD.com

It was an obvious hyperbole ;) But it's not necessarily verbal since it can sometimes present with language difficulties. They are however always highly sociable.

[Hum]

What could you possibly have to say, that you need 13,000 plus messages ??? :blink:

[James123]

my gf sends about 10,000ish txts per month, so i dint find it that unusual :p

Does your girlfriend have a job? Is it one that involves texting... a lot?

I don't understand how somebody can send (on average) 1 text every 3 minutes of waking hours and still have time to do a job and other things... or what they could possibly need to say in that many text messages :s (unless you include massive group-messages)

Edited January 12, 2009 by James123

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

This girl is gonna have serious RSI in 3...2...1...

[DR3AMxCATCHER]

There is no way a 13 year old girl or boy, doesn't matter, should be sending anywhere near that many text messages. I was thinking a want to be paris hilton. This girl will be getting a TV commerical in the near future.

[Dane]

What could you possibly have to say, that you need 13,000 plus messages ??? :blink:

*girly voice.*

Like OMG, my BFF said that so and so...blah blah blah

*end girly voice*

Seriously though wonder how big of a box the bill came in.

[Chester0]

i don't think i speak that many words in a month, think about sms'ing it! OMG

[Geranium_Z__NL]

weird WEIRD... nope.. im gonna stick with the 3 or 4 per month... and the calling downstairs to my mum lol

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

Not to go all green on you guys, but please tell me that they do a paperless bill, because that's a total waste of paper. But seeing as they obviously are shocked by all of this, I'm sure they don't notice any problems with getting a bill hidden in a stack of papers 440 pages high :/

Either way, I hope they view it online and leave it at that.