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Kid sends 14,528 text messages in one month

Posted by Marc Saltzman at 2:41 PM | January 14, 2009

And you thought your kids were addicted to text messaging. Have you heard about this Californian teen who sent 14,528 text messages in one month?OMG!

Thirteen year-old Reina Hardesty’s father wasn’t “LOL” when he read last month’s AT&T cell phone bill. The 440-page statement listed an incredible 14,528 text messages sent in one month.

Um, that works out to be about 484 text messages a day, on average. Yes, a day.

Fortunately, the Hardesty family has a $30/month unlimited texting plan or else this AT&T bill would have been nearly $3,000.

According to a U.S.-based Nielsen study, the average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is about 1,742.

http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/01/kid-sends-14528.html