You can trust your child and be atleast somewhat aware what they are doing at the same time. Also, since when does a child get to make a decision when you are footing the bill?
jonks
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I think you have it backwards. For the teenager the phone is a privilege, the person it's a luxury for is the parent. If your kid has a phone you can call them and know where they are at all times. Before you had to take their word for it. Now you can gps their ass. Taking away your kids phone will inconvenience you about as much as it does them. It's like taking away their car. Sure they can't drive anywhere, but now you have to drive their ass places they need to go.
How old are you? Different people prefer different methods of communication. I have a blackberry and I have sent/received 50 texts from 7.30 this morning (it is now 3). I also have been sending emails and talking to people on GTalk on the blackberry and blackberry messenger.
And whoever countered my argument above should realize that it's summer so no school. I did assume 16 hours up and 8 hours of sleep. And even at school you have 5 minute passing periods and lunch. Plus its easy to text during school.
If he gets the unlimited plan then just drop her minute allowance.
BlackTigers
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And if she has a Qwerty phone, texting for a teenage girl (how old, btw?) goes so fast, with most of the replies being "haha" or "oh," which take all of five seconds to write and send. =/
5to1baby1in5
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Throckmorton
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Jeff7
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Well there was that one article recently where they said that one a per-byte basis, text messages cost several times more than getting data from Hubble?
Here we go.
?The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that."
Bottled water, and text messaging. Two grand ways of getting massive profit out of something simple. I wonder if the cost for text messaging started out as some kind of bet among the accountants.
"No way man, you can't charge that much for a text message! That's like 1000x the cost of voice data, for the same bandwidth!"
"You wanna make a bet on that? Huh? I bet I can charge <however much text messages cost> and people will actually pay it."
"Bull. Shit. You're on."
Awhile later, one of them was a good bit richer.
Here we go.
?The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that."
Bottled water, and text messaging. Two grand ways of getting massive profit out of something simple. I wonder if the cost for text messaging started out as some kind of bet among the accountants.
"No way man, you can't charge that much for a text message! That's like 1000x the cost of voice data, for the same bandwidth!"
"You wanna make a bet on that? Huh? I bet I can charge <however much text messages cost> and people will actually pay it."
"Bull. Shit. You're on."
Awhile later, one of them was a good bit richer.
episodic
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- Feb 7, 2004
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I gave my son a tracfone. I told him it stays in his pocket unless it is an emergency or he is stranded. I pay under 10 a month to add 50 minutes a month and keep it active. It has accumulated over 800 minutes, and we've used it a handfull of tiems - all of which we were really glad it was there. He understands it is an emergency tool, not one to gab for hours to his friends on. Then I got him his own skypein and and skypeout number and a wireless headphone/mic - he sits in his room for hours talking to friends on that - cost - about 7 bucks a month.
That sucks man, but your bill is cheap compared to the one I saw when I was selling cell phones. This dad bought his daughters a shared cell phone plan and put no text msging on the plan, back then it was normal to not get text msging, but the phones the girls picked out sent text msgs. Poor bastard got a ream of paper (literally a ream or larger) for a bill. All in all the total was close to $8k. He came into our store asking what we could do about it. We had not sold him the plan, but we dealt with verizon. We called them and they knocked the bill down a lot, but it was still over $1k he had to pay.
BoomerD
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- Feb 26, 2006
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Nah, go ahead and kill her. No jury would convict you...it'd be considered "justifiable homicide."
My adult daughter texts like a fiend...I was with her one day at the Metro PCS store and they said she averages 5000 text messages per month. :shocked:
Now I know why she pays for unlimited texting...
My adult daughter texts like a fiend...I was with her one day at the Metro PCS store and they said she averages 5000 text messages per month. :shocked:
Now I know why she pays for unlimited texting...
No way any kid needs to be on the phone that much, texting or otherwise. I don't care how fast she is at texting, she still had to be using it for a couple of hours for that many messages.
I'd cut the texting off completely. Nobody needs it. They have a cell phone...that's already slack by itself, it's even more slack not to call someone and actually TALK to them.
I'd cut the texting off completely. Nobody needs it. They have a cell phone...that's already slack by itself, it's even more slack not to call someone and actually TALK to them.
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