I want to kill my daughter

[SphinxnihpS]

btw... I still haven't gotten an answer in the Canadian cell phone thing. Honestly I was under the impression you guys still had the telegraph and Pony Express up there. How do those things work inside of igloos?

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Jeeze.

Get her the unlimited plan.

For $85 bucks a month I have unlimited email/data/text messages, voicemail, caller ID, 450 anytime minutes, 250 long distance minutes, unlimited calling after 6pm, unlimited incoming minutes at anytime.

What a bargain... (where's the rollseyes emoticon the size of Alaska?) Are you a rep or something?

What on earth does a kid need a cell phone for anyway? I seem to recall growing up without them.

Computers? Who needs them when they're growing up. My grandparents grew up fine without them. And those cars, my great-grandparents didn't have them growing up... etc.

Times change. Deal with it. And the use a payphone nonsense - many are falling apart, being permanently removed, or just unsupported since they cost the phone companies more money than they bring in.

For a TEENAGER a cell phone is a LUXURY.

Are you kidding? You consider a $30 dollar a month recurring expense to be a luxury?

:laugh:

I got my first cell phone 10 years ago, when I was 13, because it was mutually convenient for me and my parents, it was safe, and I didn't have to use a payphone.

It's prudent, and in the states with how cheap plans are the value you get for safety vs. cost makes it an almost brain dead decision.

You carried one of these around when you were 13? Wow you must have been so cool. Let's be friends!

I had the other Nokia brick

 

[Turin39789]

sero ftw

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Do this.

http://www.lurid.org/wordpress...06/idk_my_bff_jill.jpg

i dont think he should do that, it did make me LOL however

 

[bonkers325]

make her pay for it, or disable texting on her phone.

 

[Epic Fail]

:camera:'s of daughter or shens

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Leros
Did she know she had a limit?

Fritzo, are you going to hold her responsible for this in any way?

read the thread

answer: yes

 

[TehMac]

Well, she can't plead complete ignorance. It's a pretty stupid and brain wasting thing to do.


OP: Is your daughter more social: is she attractive or obese?

 

[BlackTigers]

To those of you saying to ditch the phone altogether - did you go out as a kid? If for nothing else, it's a great way to keep tabs on your kid when they're not at home, and is great for any emergency. I don't see why the phone should be scrapped (doesn't look like Fritzo's doing that anyway), but she definitely needs some sort of boundaries as far as the texting goes.

I know before I got a job I did work around the house and extra for relatives to pay for my bill, that may work.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Leros
Did she know she had a limit?

Fritzo, are you going to hold her responsible for this in any way?

read the thread

answer: yes

didn't feel like it.

thanks for the update, and the precise details.... no wait...

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Call verizon and say you had no idea this would happen, blah blah blah, say you want to upgrade to the unlimited text plan and they should wave the charges. They did when my brother did that.

To defend your daughter a little... it's really easy to send 4k text messages.

edit: make her pay for it... learn her some responsibility.

No, really, its not easy to send 4k text messages in a month.

5-10 a day, maybe... but 4k a month? thats just insane.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: child of wonder
This is exactly why my kids' phones will have texting disabled when they're old enough to have them.

Not seen as popular because you don't have texting? Too fucking bad. Grow a pair and stop bowing to the whims of society.

From what the CSR's from both T-Mobile and Verizon have told me you can not turn of txt.

You most certainly can. One of my best friends had texts turned off (Verizon) both incoming and outgoing. If I send something to him, he will never receive it.

A year or so ago I had texts turned off on my phone with AT&T, you just call them and ask for texts to be turned off, it wasn't difficult.

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Do this.

http://www.lurid.org/wordpress...06/idk_my_bff_jill.jpg

ESTENYEF!

 

[imported_Imp]

Wonder how many "huh?" and "ok" messages she sent out.

If it will quell your rage, more studies point to brain cancer and phone usage. In this case, her thumbs might fall off in 10-20 years.

 

[MotionMan]

I do not recall ever sending a text message in my life.

I recall receiving a few, but not more than 10 in my life.

Every once in a while I delete the orphaned text messages in my wifes phone. She does not have a clue how to retrieve them, let alone send one.

I can only hope that my kids have better things to do when they are older. If they send 4000 texts in a month, we will have to have a little sit-down.

(Full disclosure: I check my e-mail all the time at home, at the office and on my phone. It is a bad habit, "but I can stop at any time" )

MotionMan

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Call verizon and say you had no idea this would happen, blah blah blah, say you want to upgrade to the unlimited text plan and they should wave the charges. They did when my brother did that.

To defend your daughter a little... it's really easy to send 4k text messages.

edit: make her pay for it... learn her some responsibility.

No, really, its not easy to send 4k text messages in a month.

5-10 a day, maybe... but 4k a month? thats just insane.

LOL
I send 5 - 10 a month.

 

[Squisher]

I have never sent a text message.

I would rather stick an ice pick in my eye.

 

[vhx]

I've never needed a cell phone.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: TehMac
Well, she can't plead complete ignorance. It's a pretty stupid and brain wasting thing to do.


OP: Is your daughter more social: is she attractive or obese?

hahahah, I don't see what that has to do with anything. You realize you're texting another person right? You are not just talking to a computer or something.

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: child of wonder
This is exactly why my kids' phones will have texting disabled when they're old enough to have them.

Not seen as popular because you don't have texting? Too fucking bad. Grow a pair and stop bowing to the whims of society.

From what the CSR's from both T-Mobile and Verizon have told me you can not turn of txt.

You most certainly can. One of my best friends had texts turned off (Verizon) both incoming and outgoing. If I send something to him, he will never receive it.

A year or so ago I had texts turned off on my phone with AT&T, you just call them and ask for texts to be turned off, it wasn't difficult.

Yup, I hardly ever used it, then spammer got ahold of the number, got 2 in two months earlier this year, contacted Verizon Wireless and got them to disable text messaging on my number.

 

[mooseracing]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I got a text message today with my Verizon bill----it was $396.80. WTcapitalF???!!!!!! That's like $220 more than normal!!!!!

Turns out my daughter is on a 1500/month text message plan, and all Verizon network texts are umlimited. Well, she sent out 4000 (FOUR + 3 ZEROS) text messages last month- over half of which were off network. That breaks down to ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY OUTGOING TEXTS PER DAY!!!!!!! How can you possibly do that????? Well, she found a way.

No matter what I do to her, I'm still stuck with a $400 Verizon bill. Looks like I'm working for Verizon this week :| Anyone in the same boat?

stop being such a cheap ass... they offer unlimited texting as part of your plan...
subscribe to it

I had to start paying my own at 16 which is when I got my own phone because I had to buy it. It wasn't handed to me with no responsibility.

Take the phone away for a month or two and then see what she says. If I ever get so lucky to have kid running around they sure and the hell aren't getting a phone like my nephew did at 8.

 

[ZOOYUKA]

Why wouldn't you be monitoring your daughters cell phone usage in the first place? Limit or no limit you should be aware of your daughters phone useage. Consider yourself lucky if all get is a large phone bill. She could've of been texting a 30 year old dude. Do you even know that she wasn't? Kids will do stupid things when given the opportunity.

 

[Xonoahbin]

4,000 is a hell of a lot. I will say that I've probably gone with almost 1,000 this month, but that's only 1/4 of that and it seemed like I was texting 24/7. Crazy.

 

[YoungGun21]

4000 a month is nothing. You're all ignorant if you think that is an insane amount. It takes a few seconds to send a text and you can do it from anywhere. Not to mention you do text while you are doing anything (watching TV, playing a game, walking around, shopping, etc)

I'm not sure if you mean 4000 outgoing or 4000 total. I'm assuming you mean 4000 total so let me help you understand since you can't seem to wrap your mind around this...
2000 sent
2000 incoming
30 days in a month = 67 per day (67 sent and 67 rec)
Obviously she wouldnt text for the whole 24 hours in a day so we will call it 12 hours in a day = 5.5 per hour (5.5 sent and 5.5 rec)
It takes no more than a few seconds to type + send a text. If both people are replying as soon as they get the other text you can easily rack up 50+ sent texts an hour (to 1 person).
Then you have to remember she probably texts more than just one person. Texting 3 people I can still manage to send about 30 texts to EACH person per hour.

So to all of you who think 4000 texts is too much, think again.

....but that still doesnt justify her going that much over the limit. I always make sure the people I text have Verizon and if they dont then I wont send them more than a few texts before I stop.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: ZOOYUKA
Why wouldn't you be monitoring your daughters cell phone usage in the first place? Limit or no limit you should be aware of your daughters phone useage. Consider yourself lucky if all get is a large phone bill. She could've of been texting a 30 year old dude. Do you even know that she wasn't? Kids will do stupid things when given the opportunity.

At some point you have to trust your kids to make their own decisions or you're going to raise will farrell in his latest movie.