How about texting??

Worse, I have voice dialing as well.

No voice texting as of yet.

My Daughter had 1100 texts last month, her plan had 250 allotted, we had 'words'.

#26 | Posted by Zap at 2008-11-15 03:48 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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from the article --

The California man's 13-year-old daughter, Reina, racked up an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month. The online AT&T statement ran 440 pages...It works out to 484 text messages a day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour...

She sent text messages at the rate of one message every two minutes of every waking hour!

Does she ever do homework or chores?

Does she have any actual speaking skills or even communicate verbally with real, live people?

She probably writes everything in "text message" style too.

Her father should yank her cell phone out of her hand and have her read a book once in awhile. And have you noticed some of these kids can't even write properly anymore, and instead they write out everything using mostly text message abbreviations.

Larry --

I remember back when ZAP wrote that post.

Maybe he won't feel so bad after reading what this father went though!

Let's hope not Christine. 14 thousand texts. I text while driving and I don't see how I could text that much. Boggles the mind.

Larry

Yeah, but does she have anything to say??

@.20 per text would that work out to.... where is Vernon with his gay calculator....over 2,800 bucks for a month? Geeze...

I wouldn't want to try to thumb-wrestle this girl...

If each text message averaged ten words and you then apply the math, this young girl in a single month "texted" the equivalent of a 363 page paper, double spaced.

I am betting that when her teachers tell her that she has a three page paper due, she probably complains--by texting friends, no less.

Cheer

Two words: carpal tunnel

" I text while driving "

Remind me not to visit your state

Without a "free text" option what does the math on this come to?
I'm no Vern but,
$O.25 per message by 14000 = $3500!!!!

I would break the phone if it was my kid.

Here's how stupid I am. When I got a cell phone through work, I would text as much as possible because I thought I was saving the company money. When someone told me that it's more expensive to spend 3 minutes texting one sentence than it is to just talk to that person on the phone I thought that was the most moronic thing I've ever heard.

Luckily, Hardesty has a phone plan that allows unlimited texting for $30 a month. Otherwise, he estimates, he would have owed AT&T $2,905.60 at a rate of 20 cents per message.

what ever happened to talking to people? Are we really that disconnected from one another.

Remind me not to visit your state

Posted by LetUsPrey at 2009-01-12 09:29 PM | Reply

I haven't had a problem yet.

Larry

YET

they have $30/month unlimited texting.

ours text and it costs 1/3 of a minute per text and if they go over they must pay out of their allowance. two or three times of THAT taught them a lesson. and quite frankly we don't want to have to pay later for carpal tunnel surgery.

at supper this evening we were talking about the good old days of "letter writing" - it was fun talking about how you'd have to find a pen and paper, not to mention an envelope and THEN PAY for postage!

This little lady would have a hard time texting if he just took the damn thing away.

Seriously, why would you let your child accumulate that many text msgs? He has to see her face down in her phone all day long and thinks nothing of it?

what ever happened to talking to people? Are we really that disconnected from one another.

#14 | Posted by GotTruth

It appears the next generation is getting that way.

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She is seriously over doing it and needs a little bit of restriction to put things back into perspective.

Hey better to see Her head in a phone than wondering where She is at.

Larry

I met a college student who said he sends 1,000-2,000/day.

A friend of mine who teaches high school in an affluent mostly Mormon suburb confiscated a phone from a girl texted in class. She started twitching, and he asked her how many texts she sent per day--she said over 2,000.

I'm no chatty Cathy, but I've sent and received 20 texts in a minute EASY (sending out a group text, getting quick short replies like "k" for "ok").

How is that humanly possible Kirk?? I can do maybe 3 per 5 minute time frame?? Are Your thumbs stiff??

Larry

I have an effin' blackberry...these are terrible.

I blog, I e-mail on this, I text, I Yahoo Messenger, I Blackberry Messenger, I go to Facebook, I read the Bible on this thing, my schedule and work ideas on here, and MOST of my friends now own blackberries...by nearly 2 to 1.

And I'm with Larry, I've texted while driving...been cutting back a lot, but still...

A 13 year old girl who NEVER drives could do that EASY.

She should get the right phone or she will hurt her fingers.

This is the one I use often to post here.

I'm waiting to see the first generation that learned to "text" before they learned to read and write.

Larry, Depends on the phone.

On THIS Blackberry (Curve) you can set up text groups, with like 20/30 people (or more).

I have one for guys from my church where I get out important info--don't use it much.

I type out a short message, hit send (to the group) and I sent 20/30 messages in 15 seconds.
*By the way*, it's a full qwerty keyboard.

If 1/2 of guys respond within 20 seconds--not uncommon with college age guys, that could be 30-45 texts within a minute.

Another scenario is having 2 conversations at once. I've had this happen about 1x per week for the last 6 months (when I got my blackberry with W's stimulus plan).
With 2 conversations going at once with guys on blackberries, you can send/receive 30/minute EASY!

We'll see if President Obama can give up HIS crackberry--I've heard he doesn't want to!

Oh. And at the girl's birthday party, she sat beside her best friend, texting her.

I just have a flat, little ole Nokia phone.

I got my brother to put a ring tone on it that plays the Texas Tech fight song.

I was forced to upgrade a little over a year ago because the same and only phone I'd had since 2001 no longer worked one day---they switched to "digital" from whatever it was. I was really fucking angry about it.

Then you read about this kind of shit...

Tosser

She should get the right phone or she will hurt her fingers.

This is the one I use often to post here.

www.mobileburn.com

#24 | Posted by Tosser at 2009-01-13 12:03 AM

Neat looking cell phone. I like the slide out keyboard. I think a few people on here would be overjoyed if a mobileburn was the only device I had to post on DR if for nothing else than to keep my posts to 1 -2 sentences at the max. lol

It looks handy in a pinch but would be a pain in the butt to write anything but the most limited worded posts, wouldn't it? Can you email with it? Does it cost a lot of $$$ a month and do you have to sign a contract as you do with Verizon and other cell phone companies?

Larry

You text while driving??? You're loco to take a chance keeping your eyes off the road for that long. Why don't you just get a cell phone with a headset? In California you now have to have a hands free cell phone if you want to use it when driving. They want both hands on the wheel.

Remember that real bad train crash here in L.A. a month or so ago? The conductor was text messaging two teenage trainbuffs at the time and totally missed the red light and hit another train headon. Lots of people died because of it, including him.

I sure do Christine. See You take Your tilt steering wheel lower it to it's lowest setting(Makes it lok like an old lady is driving and then You simply use Your legs and knees to steer the steering wheel while Your hands manipulate the phones keyboard. Easy Peasy really. I haven't crashed yet. I'll let You know if that happens however.

Larry

Larry,

You say you steer the wheel of your car with your legs and knees so you can use your both your hands while you text message? You're crazy. You need at least one hand on the wheel at all times.

Maybe YOU think you're in control but all you need is some guy running a red light at a crosswalk coming from the opposite direction and those few seconds it takes for you to look up from your text messaging and grab the wheel could mean the difference between life and death if you needed those few seconds to veer your car out of the way.

Why do You need both hands to drive with?? Hell when I am NOT texting I only use My left. I found that if You use the 10 and 2 positions that the people at Drivers ed always tell You to use then Your right hand is fighting with the left for control over which way You are steering. Oh and You can drive with Your legs and or knees You just have to have legs long enough so You can use Your toes of Your shoes to push the foot feed and brake. Easy peasy for Me.

Larry

what ever happened to talking to people? Are we really that disconnected from one another.

#14 | Posted by GotTruth

I'm afraid so, GotTruth. Used to be a sore point between a relative of mine and myself because that person would rarely bother to call my Mom when she was getting on into her 80's (she passed away at 88). Instead my relative would only communicate with occasional emails to my Mom but rarely use the phone to talk to her.

I explained how my Mom getting emails really didn't mean all that much to her at her age -- she didn't understand the whole email thing but the main point was it wasn't a voice she would hear -- just the typed email contents when read to her. But when my Mom's would actually hear that person's voice on the other end of the phone, then her face would light up with recognition and she would start smiling even though she had very limited speaking ability of her own in her last few years left.

So a phone call and personal verbal communication is really the best way of communicating to another when at all possible. Emails are okay, but there's no two-way interaction, no voice heard, and no real emotion and/or gestures which play such an important part when yhou communicate with another.

Did you know that communication consists of the following --

55% - body language

38% - tone of voice

7% - the actual words spoken

So emailing, texting, or anything only in writing (like when you blog) only gets across 7% of what you really want your words to say to another. Gestures and body language like smiling, laughing, and your tone of voice -- all are left out and therefore take away so much of the intent and real meaning of how your message is received.

It looks handy in a pinch but would be a pain in the butt to write anything but the most limited worded posts, wouldn't it? Can you email with it? Does it cost a lot of $$$ a month and do you have to sign a contract as you do with Verizon and other cell phone companies?

It's an HTC... same guys from Taiwan who make that Google phone.

No, it isn't a pain in the butt at all. The keyboard, is tiny but fast. I can write a whole damn essay on this, no problem.

Yes, I can email with it.

No, it doesn't cost any more than any other phone to use.

No, we don't have contracts in this country when it comes to mobile phone use.

I pick up the SIM of whatever phone company I like, put them SIM in the phone and get a phone number and start using.

If using something called "EDGE", you get around 300kb download speed. More than enough for email and internet use.

I change the SIM and hey I now I have new phone number and new phone company.

Having said all that, I am thinking of dumping this phone and getting a Nokia 6220 Classic (much much better camera) or one of the N series like the Nokia N-95.

Having said all that, I am thinking of dumping this phone and getting a Nokia 6220 Classic (much much better camera) or one of the N series like the Nokia N-95.

I have seen that I-Phone here.... it's a joke.

Larry,
If you're about to crash and die, will you text, I.M., Y!Messenger me so we can live-blog you're death?

If you're about to crash and die, will you text, I.M., Y!Messenger me so we can live-blog you're death?

#38 | Posted by kirk at 2009-01-13 01:36 AM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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Now that sounds like super duper cyber spiritual connectivity. Sure will. If I think about it at the time. You never know My last thoughts might be on some TBone steak or cheeseburger.

Larry

Maybe we can collide head-on whike we're both texting and driving...or even arguing here...

I wonder if she text-dreams...

We interviewed her, too:

A few months ago my sister told me that my teenage niece had 11,000 one month. I aksed her how she did it. She said a lot of them are a single word reply -- but still!

I want to strangle people that abbreviate everything.

2mrw
K
C
U

Especially "k". Like "ok" is too many letters to type out!

Sry wld u sy d@ agin hrd o hrin.

Ly

Too Funny Larry

Texting takes little bandwidth, a cheaper service to provide than voice. Yet ONLY in the States it costs extra. Add to that every service provider has their own proprietory operating system and you have the most expensive poorest functioning "free market" cell phone systems in the world today.

When my oldest daughter turned 13 (this was pre-cell phones days), she wanted a phone in her room. So we got her one with a separate line.

One night, I heard something and woke up @ 3 am on a school night and there she was, talking away, like it was sunday afternoon. Then we got her report card. A normal honor roll student had dropped two letter grades across the board.

That was the beginning of the new nazi regime that took hold in my house.

bad, bad daddy!!!

Texting takes little bandwidth, a cheaper service to provide than voice. Yet ONLY in the States it costs extra. Add to that every service provider has their own proprietory operating system and you have the most expensive poorest functioning "free market" cell phone systems in the world today.

Yes, even our corporations are investing overseas.

Texting is like using a horse drawn plow when I have a tractor.

"Yeah, but does she have anything to say??

#5 | Posted by JoeDr"

Like, yeah...

Here's how stupid I am.

#12 | Posted by RastaCyborg at 2009-01-12 09:33 PM | Reply

Cledus,
The fact that you're stupid is well documented. No need for explanation.
10-4?

Texting is like using a horse drawn plow when I have a tractor.#51 | Posted by yougothurt at 2009-01-13 10:38 AM | Reply

Texting is great for a short information-based message, such as "Are we still meeting at Starbucks at 3:00?"

Or if someone is in a meeting, you can relay short important information without them needing to interrupt the meeting.

Anything more than that is usually a waste.

Here is what I do not understand.

Why send a text message when you can enter a number and talk?

When I get text messages, I return it with a call. People ask me why I do this and I simply explain; If you need to communicate with me you should have the common courtesy to actually talk to me or it is not that important.

Hell after work I even turn off the cell phone. We are turning into a totally disengaged society who is too afraid to be alone with our own thoughts.

Sad actually.

Pro,
Completely agree for once.

I can't find anything more annoying that a teenager texting... especially when you are trying to talk to them... I used to help out with a youth group while I was in college... and I wanted nothing more than to smack the cell phones out of the texting teens hands.... Oh and I was a leader for a lock in last year and I mandated that each and everyone of the girls (ages 12-14) give up their cell phones for the weekend... if they needed to call their parents they would have to use the host house's land line... all of us grown ups were tired of seeing them text each other... while they were in the same room... :/

I am lucky if I use even half of my 500 messages a month... :/

My daughter texted alot so I signed her up for 1,000 a month and told her to have at it. Next thing you know, she jammed way thru the number, and the bill was $125 higher then the normal T Mobile 3 phone family plan deal (of 113.00).

I called up and exploded on them. They said the billing period was over they had no recourse. I said "cancel". well someone finally got on who apologized and gave us unlimited texting for as long as we remain clients for free.

Remember to call and complain if your bill goes nuts. Once you say "cancel" they finally put you in touch with someone who will cut you a better then advertised deal....

For Zap See It COULD Be Worse. At least She isn't YOUR Daughter.
~Larry

She is now on the unlimited plan for $15.

Texting is such a scam.

txtn nt scm Chp ykyk wt frnds. Zp Nt Hp 2 sqr.

LM

txtn nt scm Chp ykyk wt frnds. Zp Nt Hp 2 sqr.
#60 | Posted by LarryMohr

that hurt my head.