Last November I wrote a blog in reference to the mystery of teenagers and text messaging. The blog focused on my daughter and the fact that she had 14,593 text messages in one month. I also mentioned this seems impossible as she cannot text message while she is at her high school. Plus she participates in a dance company where she dances a minimum of 3 hours a day during the week, almost every Saturday and occasionally on Sunday’s.
Until now I thought 14,593 text messages were impossible for her to exceed; however I am once again proven wrong by my children. Last month she broke the 25K barrier with 25,449 text messages in one month. This is equivalent to over 800 text messages a day which is unbelievable. One reason for the increase is she was out of school and dance for winter break which lasted about 2 weeks. However, 25,449 text messages in a month is still a lot of messages for anyone.
I am considering looking up the Guinness World Record for text messages, as this could be the new record. The teenagers today say thank goodness for wireless technology, however I am just thankful that unlimited text messaging is a feature that is offered and to which I subscribe. Do you have teenagers that go to the extreme with text messaging? Did they ever exceed 25,000 text messages in one month?
Ware Ng says:
January 28, 2010 at 11:43 am
If you look at your bill, probably most of those are incoming. Signing up for Facebook and Twitter and directing them to send updates to you, brings a lot of messages during the day. 800 is extreme but it is easy to see how it could happen.
Felicia says:
February 25, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Wow! That is a LOT of texting, regardless of whether she is doing them all or they are incoming. It seems like her day would be spent reading/writing them! Almost makes you wonder if our kids could live without technology at this point.
I am sure that many texts is a pretty fairly normal thing anymore though-I hope you have an unlimited plan though!