11,712 text messages in one month!

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: markgm
That's only 1 message every 2 minutes, unless that includes incoming, which is one message every 4 minutes that she's awake!!

No, that's one every 4 minutes assuming she doesn't sleep.

Correct.

(11712 text messages / month) * (1 month / 30 days) * (1 day / 1440 mins) = 0.27 text messages per minute, or 1 every 4 minutes. If you assume this doesn't happen when she is asleep, and assuming she sleeps 7 hours, then she sends and receives a text message at a rate of 0.38 messages per minute, or 1 every 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

Sad.

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: markgm
That's only 1 message every 2 minutes, unless that includes incoming, which is one message every 4 minutes that she's awake!!

No, that's one every 4 minutes assuming she doesn't sleep.

Correct.

(11712 text messages / month) * (1 month / 30 days) * (1 day / 1440 mins) = 0.27 text messages per minute, or 1 every 4 minutes. If you assume this doesn't happen when she is asleep, and assuming she sleeps 7 hours, then she sends and receives a text message at a rate of 0.38 messages per minute, or 1 every 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

Sad.

She just sent~ two text messages.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: markgm
That's only 1 message every 2 minutes, unless that includes incoming, which is one message every 4 minutes that she's awake!!

No, that's one every 4 minutes assuming she doesn't sleep.

Correct.

(11712 text messages / month) * (1 month / 30 days) * (1 day / 1440 mins) = 0.27 text messages per minute, or 1 every 4 minutes. If you assume this doesn't happen when she is asleep, and assuming she sleeps 7 hours, then she sends and receives a text message at a rate of 0.38 messages per minute, or 1 every 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

Sad.

Even if it is free, a text message each 2.5 minutes that she's awake tells me that there needs to be some boundaries set.

 

[Vonkhan]

sent AND received

 

[slackerinabox]

You guys are forgetting that phones let you send texts to dozens of people at a time. I do that on fridays, to communicate where I'll be drinking next. It's easy to send out 40 texts withouth realizing it - 10 people 4 times. My high was about 40 texts a day, but that's just because I hate talking to people and prefer text.

 

[Aikouka]

Couldn't it also include text messages sent to multiple people? Such as sending the same message "What are you doing tonight?" (of course you must chatspeak that up) to about 20 different people and then responding to each one again.

 

[Fritzo]

I bet she forgot how to talk.

Seriously, I hate texting. If you're over 18 and you send me a text message I'm going to call you, find out where you're at, and smear my knuckles on your face.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I bet she forgot how to talk.

Seriously, I hate texting. If you're over 18 and you send me a text message I'm going to call you, find out where you're at, and smear my knuckles on your face.

texting works quite well for me when signals low and voice doesn't work well. i can get a "meet upstairs" out and be done with it.

 

[Tiamat]

thats actually not very hard to do especially if you use txt msg just like an instant messenger program.

It would be pretty easy to send 390 messages per day.

e.g. 39 msg conversation with 10 people is not very difficult to do.

You have to remember that sending 20 messages within 1 minute is very easy to do, and typical especially when you are just sitting around doing nothing.

 

[Cienja]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Pathetic. I can't believe people let their kids waste that much time with stupid shit like this. I text message my family when there is actually something to say, which is about 5-6 messages a month (incoming and outgoing). Try nudging her toward a productive life like paying attention in school for starters.

Her GPA is 3.8

 

[GTaudiophile]

That's about 16 texts per hour for an entire month.

 

[Throckmorton]

Since no one is stepping up to the plate I guess it's up to me.

Pics?

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Cienja

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Pathetic. I can't believe people let their kids waste that much time with stupid shit like this. I text message my family when there is actually something to say, which is about 5-6 messages a month (incoming and outgoing). Try nudging her toward a productive life like paying attention in school for starters.

Her GPA is 3.8

[sarcasm]Clearly she is intelligent [/sarcasm]. I tried zero in high school and graduated in the top 10. GPA means literally nothing in high school. Nice try though. She still needs a life.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I have never understood the whole texting fad, weren't phones made to TALK

 

[JDMnAR1]

Originally posted by: Cienja

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Pathetic. I can't believe people let their kids waste that much time with stupid shit like this. I text message my family when there is actually something to say, which is about 5-6 messages a month (incoming and outgoing). Try nudging her toward a productive life like paying attention in school for starters.

Her GPA is 3.8

See...there is room for improvement.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: markgm
That's only 1 message every 2 minutes, unless that includes incoming, which is one message every 4 minutes that she's awake!!

No, that's one every 4 minutes assuming she doesn't sleep.

Correct.

(11712 text messages / month) * (1 month / 30 days) * (1 day / 1440 mins) = 0.27 text messages per minute, or 1 every 4 minutes. If you assume this doesn't happen when she is asleep, and assuming she sleeps 7 hours, then she sends and receives a text message at a rate of 0.38 messages per minute, or 1 every 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

Sad.

Even if it is free, a text message each 2.5 minutes that she's awake tells me that there needs to be some boundaries set.

I completely agree. She is wasting her best years, and as cliche as that sounds, it's true. It's too bad her father doesn't have enough sense to make her do something more productive with her life.

 

[Anubis]

im curious about how many my cousin sends a months, i was over at her house setting up a computer for them last sunday, after i was done we watched some football, her and her friends phone literally we going off about every 30 seconds

 

[Jhill]

Just ask her if she ever texts during her classes. If She says no, explain she has class 7 hrs a day and sleeps 7 hours a day and that means she literally sends or receives 1 text per minute every waking hour.

 

[manowar821]

Holy crap.

That's insane.

When I read this thread, I instantly had the image of a girl with a straight-jacket on screaming at the top of her lungs "OMG GIV ME BAK MY PHONE I H8 U U JUS DON NO ME UR SO GHEY MY BFF SEZ UR LAME TOO LOL OMG GIV IT BAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK *teleports into interbutt*".

That's nutty, get her help.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Jhill
Just ask her if she ever texts during her classes. If She says no, explain she has class 7 hrs a day and sleeps 7 hours a day and that means she literally sends or receives 1 text per minute every waking hour.

IDK how peopel woudl get away with it, back when i was in HS, was when cellphones started getting big and if a teacher saw you with one at any time during school, even in the hall and whatnot it was taken away till the end of the day

i guess that does not happen anymore

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
You have to remember that sending 20 messages within 1 minute is very easy to do, and typical especially when you are just sitting around doing nothing.

I guess that's my issue with the thing.... who has that much time to waste doing "nothing"? Every waking moment?

 

[FallenHero]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: markgm
That's only 1 message every 2 minutes, unless that includes incoming, which is one message every 4 minutes that she's awake!!

No, that's one every 4 minutes assuming she doesn't sleep.

Correct.

(11712 text messages / month) * (1 month / 30 days) * (1 day / 1440 mins) = 0.27 text messages per minute, or 1 every 4 minutes. If you assume this doesn't happen when she is asleep, and assuming she sleeps 7 hours, then she sends and receives a text message at a rate of 0.38 messages per minute, or 1 every 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

Sad.

Even if it is free, a text message each 2.5 minutes that she's awake tells me that there needs to be some boundaries set.

I completely agree. She is wasting her best years, and as cliche as that sounds, it's true. It's too bad her father doesn't have enough sense to make her do something more productive with her life.

You're just an asshole.

Personal attacks on members isn't allowed here. You've been here long enough to know the rules. You can reread the rules on your week vacation.
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[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: Cienja
That's total, sent and received in one month...

Any one else have a teenager that takes "unlimited" to this extent?

tell her to stop texting in class

 

[Tiamat]

one of my friends has a sidekick, and she uses 6000 txt per month without feeling like she is spending too much time doing it. She has bursts of 60-100 txt msgs within 15 minute intervals randomly assorted throughout the day.

She works full time and doesnt use the sidekick at work (10 hrs per day) nor sleep (6 hrs per day). Its very possible to use that many text messages.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Thats almost 400 a day, and like 6 per hour, 1 per 10 minutes for every minute of the month...thats not even taking into account sleep time