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14,528 Text Messages in one Month

October 5, 2009 at 7:16 pm | Posted in Emergency Phone Call, Emergency Text Message, Text Messages | Leave a comment

In case you missed it, there was a story a short while ago about a teenage girl in America that sent 14,528 text messages in just one month.

To give you an idea about how crazy that number is, it equates to 484 messages a day. That’s over 20 text messages for every single hour of a 24-hour day. That’s a message every 3 minutes for every single moment of a calendar month. Mental.

Fortunately for the girls parents, who pay her bill, they were wise enough to have her mobile phone on an unlimited text plan, which meant they were saved somewhere in the region of $3,000.

Of course that doesn’t mean they weren’t shocked when the 440-page statement dropped through their letterbox, bringing to their attention the addiction their daughter has to her phone.

Although this is a one-off case, further research has found that the average teenager between the ages of 13-17 sends an average of 1,742 texts per month. That’s still well in excess of 50 texts per day.

This highlights how much the average teenager uses their phone and how quickly they can run out of credit. And it would be just typical for a teenager not to be able to call or text, when they really needed to i.e. in an emergency situation.

Fortunately, the Please Call Me services allow parents to restrict their child’s mobile phone use with a Pay As You Go deal, but still have the piece of mind knowing they can make contact in an emergency.

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