How fast can YOU text?

maestrowork · Apr 23, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/04/22/top.texter.ap/index.html

She estimated that she sends more than 8,000 text messages a month to her friends and family.

It's great that she won all that money... but seriously, 8000 messages a month? That's like over 250 messages a day, average. I think she's out of control...

WildScribe · Apr 23, 2007

I think I remember how to do that. I wonder where my cell went.

Joe270 · Apr 23, 2007

Nope, hate to use the worst four letter word but - - can't.

Never done it. I lose.

Maestro, you missed the best bit: After she won the cash, she said she couldn't wait to go shopping.

I bet a hundred bucks that she spends money faster than she can text.

Sage · Apr 23, 2007

I won't laugh 'cuz my sister just got her 70-page cell phone bill for the 3300 text messages she sent last month. Now that she's changed her plan to have unlimited text messages, she'll probably send more (she just started a long distance relationship with a guy who prefers texting over calling)

tourdeforce · Apr 23, 2007

She is going to make a hell of a 411 operator.

SpookyWriter · Apr 23, 2007

What's text?

Joe270 · Apr 23, 2007

It's a big, boring book you read for school.

SpookyWriter · Apr 23, 2007

That's what I suspected.

WildScribe · Apr 23, 2007

I think I've seen those before. I avoid school almost as hard as I avoid cell phones.

benbradley · Apr 23, 2007

maestrowork said:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/04/22/top.texter.ap/index.html

It's great that she won all that money... but seriously, 8000 messages a month? That's like over 250 messages a day, average. I think she's out of control...

Wow, with all that money, now maybe she can pay her cell phone bill!!!

SpookyWriter said:
What's text?

Oh, just another noun that got verbalized.

maestrowork · Apr 23, 2007

Joe270 said:
Maestro, you missed the best bit: After she won the cash, she said she couldn't wait to go shopping.

Right. It's not "saving it for college" or "taking my family on a vacation" or... It's to spend it all on "shopping."

Where are her parents, by the way?

benbradley · Apr 23, 2007

The OTHER Answer, The One from That Movie...

Joe270 said:
It's a big, boring book you read for school.

No, no, no, no, no... wrong answer.

SpookyWriter said:
What's text?

It's like a collection of words, y'know, like in a book, you read it and it tells you things. But that's not important now... <typing furiously on cellphone>

WildScribe · Apr 23, 2007

Joe270 said:
you missed the best bit: After she won the cash, she said she couldn't wait to go shopping.

And what's this shopping thing? I seem to be behind the times.

~Dionne, the most un-21 year old ever

SpookyWriter · Apr 23, 2007

benbradley said:
No, no, no, no, no... wrong answer.

It's like a collection of words, y'know, like in a book, you read it and it tells you things. But that's not important now... <typing furiously on cellphone>

Ah, that explains it. I ain't never had a cell phone. Thank you.

I never had a credit card either!

blacbird · Apr 23, 2007

I've never "texted" in my life. I don't regard it as a verb.

caw

Joe270 · Apr 23, 2007

It's like a collection of words, y'know, like in a book, you read it and it tells you things. But that's not important now... <typing furiously on cellphone>

Ben, I stand(well, sit in a recliner, actually) in awe, you win. Absolutely perfect. I recline in awe.

cletus · Apr 24, 2007

maestrowork said:
Where are her parents, by the way?

She sent them a text telling them she is OK.

akiwiguy · Apr 24, 2007

I loathe texting that much that when I get one I usually phone the person back.

My daughter, bless her soul, once went over her limit by thousands and I mean thousands of texts for the month and I got the bill. Never has really paid me back. Man, teenagers live on cellphones, it's crazy!

maestrowork · Apr 24, 2007

"Texting" or text-messaging is useful when you can't really make a call (in libraries, at concerts, etc.) -- it's fast, simple, and you can actually carry on a conversation that way (albeit slow and inconvenient -- if you want to have a conversation, just use the damn phone, IMO). But 8000 messages a month? Either she has a lot of friends or she's just "talkative." I'm sure she has an unlimited plan which usually costs about $15-20 a month.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Apr 24, 2007

She's 13 years old. 13! I'm with Ray... where are her parents? They should be facing neglect charges.

MattW · Apr 24, 2007

Text messages are great for one thing - drive by booty calls. Can send out a dozen with no problems, and no unnecessary talking.

Needless to say I haven't sent a text message since I started dating my wife.

maestrowork · Apr 24, 2007

So that was you who sent me a text message last night at around 1:23 a.m.

FatTire · Apr 24, 2007

I don't get text messaging. You use your cell phone to write something to somebody else. Why can't you just call them? I do get it for kids, they think they're clever by using them to sort of a note pass in class.

And I dislike the fact that I get charged for an incoming text. That's just wrong to me.

Fad.

maestrowork · Apr 24, 2007

There are times when you can't make or receive calls -- say, you're in a meeting, at lunch with business associates, driving, at the movies, during a concert, etc. It's more discreet to send and receive text messages. It's like instant email.

dclary · Apr 24, 2007

I hope she saves the money for the carpal tunnel syndrome surgery...

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