Texting has always been popular here in the UK, but a teenager in California has taken it to the next level, by sending over 14,000 texts in a single month. Regina Hardesty, a 13 year old from Orange County California sent an astonishing 14,528 texts in December, which is an average of 470 messages a day; one every three minutes.
Regina’s father Greg had a shock when he opened the phone bill, which took up 440 pages on the online bill. He said: “First I laughed. I thought ‘That’s insane, that’s impossible, I thought maybe AT&T had made some mistake on the bill.”
Regina, who was on school holidays told her parents, “it was winter break and I was bored”. Luckily enough, Regina’s parents had signed her up for unlimited texts for $30 a month or the bill could have been up to $3,000.
According to a recent study of mobile phone use for 13-17 year olds, the average monthly texts are 1,742, which is around 60 text messages a day.
I had to read this story twice just to make sure that i understood it correctly.
I still cant picture my self devoting 1 day too texting.
Also how do you keep track of what conversations you have going with people, and im sure that they would be rather angry with my constant texting.
Mikey 16th January 2009 @ 12:35
I would struggle to send that many texts within any given day. I usually send around 100 texts a day and I think that’s a lot.
Zoe 19th January 2009 @ 14:54