Jan 14 2009
007.
You’d think I’d have that costume done by now….
xD What a way to start off a post, hm? I’m still feeling sick. Still wanting to sleep forever, and still not done with that costume. Add to that my family is being normally insane, and you get not a very happy girl. >< I swear, sometimes familys just want to make people scream and go crazy in a few seconds. One of these days, its just going to make me go insane and I’m not going to be very happy about anything. Or, you know, I could just move out eventually and be free of going crazy. That poses the problem of the fact that they ARE my family and I really can’t just completely abandon them…. Oh well.
Anyway! How about a news story for today?
Girl sends 14,528 texts in 1 month. ARE. YOU. KIDDING. ME?!?! Honestly, WHO texts this much? Heres the article of it:
Greg Hardesty didn’t LOL when he got his teen daughter’s cellphone statement.All he could think was “OMG!”
PHOTOS: Text-Crazed Teen
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.
“First, I laughed. I thought, ‘That’s insane, that’s impossible,’ ” the 45-year-old dad said. “And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible.”
He found it was - barely.
It works out to 484 text messages a day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour.
“Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill,” said Hardesty, of Silverado Canyon.
The reporter for the Orange County Register grilled his daughter on her texting habit - by text message, of course.
“Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?” he asked.
“Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time,” she explained.
She messages a core of “four obsessive texters” - all girls between the ages of 12 and 13 - on her LG phone.
Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her.
She even texted her friends to brag about the high number of text messages she had logged when her parents got the statement.
Her texting soared last month because “it was winter break and I was bored,” Reina told her parents.
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.
The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742, according to a Nielsen study of cellphone usage.
Hardesty admits he himself punches in 900 messages a month - 700 more than average for his age group, according to Nielsen.
Hardesty and his ex-wife have since placed restrictions on Reina’s cellphone use, ruling she cannot text after dinner.
That is just NUTS. Texting your friend sitting right next to you?! Um, hello, you have a mouth and ears, use them. And if you’re gossiping about someone that is there and that’s why you’re texting your friend? STOP GOSSIPING! Honestly! How mean is that? And that your sending that many texts in a month? I hate texting myself, unless absolutley necessary or whatever. I don’t have unlimited texting, and even if I did, I sure wouldn’t text that much. I’m sorry, but I really don’t feel as if texting that much is even necessary, or even fun. I’d get so annoyed, so easily with that. Maybe that’s a good thing though. *Shrug*
Other than that… Will Tokio Hotel be working with Desmond Child? It was found on his website earlier today that it said “is writing with Tokio Hotel” but then a few hours later, it was taken down. What is that to mean? That, maybe he put it up when he wasn’t supposed to, and since they wanted to try and keep it secret that he had to take it down? Did he and Bill argue enough already that they decided to stop, hours after just starting to tak to each other? xDD I would die laughing at that. Bill can aruge a lot, can’t he? I dunno though, this sounds interesting, will have to keep an eye on it
So… That’s enough for tonight. I’m tired, sick and wanting to rest.
TTYL bbs!
SG666
