Srsly! Teenager sent 14528 texts in a month!

I have an awesome plan.

All three phones less than $200. A month! For three phones with unlimited text.

I can not do that on a landline phone.

Three different phones.

Not bad.
 
diehardbiker said:
AMEN!!!! That is exact what I mean when I post in other thread, one of 13 yrs old asking for advise on getting cell phone. I am sorry, I am opposed having kids gettinc cell phone, all schools are required to have access to telephone so whats point of having cell phone? For emergencies? Oh come on! Schools usually have nurses and access to telephone. Need cell for emergencies is LAME excuses! PLUS for the last 150 years, no one has cell phone, did they have problems? Of course not! so whats difference for today?
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Well, I am for a 13 years old getting a cell phone. I would give mine one (If I had a 13-year-old child/teenager), but it would be severely limited, and the reason I would be allowing my 13 year old to have one is so that she or he would have one on hand in case of a severe emergency such as a school shooting (they have been happening a bit often lately in the last 10-15 years, and it frightens the hell out of me) or a car accident or something very serious, especially since I am deaf and that would be the best way to contact me is by texting or emailing me on the cell phone. My 13 years old will only be allowed to text me and my future husband, and immediate family members. Voice cell phone calls will be allowed to only 911 (after she has been severely warned that prank 911 calls will NOT be allowed, and will result in severe privilege loss of her or his cell phone usage amount and total temporary loss of other possessions such as her or his MP3 player or the TV or the stereo or other electronics and the like) and 4 or 5 closest friends that I have approved of in advance (have actually met them and their parents). All emails will be allowed to only all her friends that are girls only if she is a girl, and to boys only if he is a boy. Recently I saw a TV commercial on TV where the parents gets to control the amount of usage of voice calls, texting, and emailing and other data depending on how they feel their teenager is doing or behaving. She will still be too young for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and other instant messenger programs that comes with many cell phones such as the SideKick. Besides, since she is only 13 years old, her cell phone won't be a SideKick or a BlackBerry or such similar phones. It will just be a simple flip-down cell phone with texting and emailing and voice capabilities. She is too young to have all the extra other stuff. Cell phone usage will be a privilege, not a right, and I will tell her or him that. Her or his cell phone usage will be heavily monitored. If I find out that my 13 year old has been using her or his phone to cheat or to help others cheat on tests in school, her or his cell phone using will be immediately and severely reduced to only contact with 911, and with both parents only (for emergency purposes only), and NO ONE ELSE for a VERY LONG TIME.

Actually, my child WILL be getting a simple cell phone with voice, texting and emailing capabilities with a flat rate/unlimited data once she or he enters middle or junior high school due to my worry of school shootings (they seem to happen pretty much only in middle/junior high and high schools, and about a year ago or so, a college, I don't remember any happening in elementary school except for that Amish school shooting). I want my child to be able to whip out her or his phone out of her or his pocket and dial 911 quickly and report the shooting, and then text or email me and I will get my ass in the car and race over to the school and wait there for the police, FBI, and the SWAT teams to bring the children to safety.
 
diehardbiker said:
AMEN!!!! That is exact what I mean when I post in other thread, one of 13 yrs old asking for advise on getting cell phone. I am sorry, I am opposed having kids gettinc cell phone, all schools are required to have access to telephone so whats point of having cell phone? For emergencies? Oh come on! Schools usually have nurses and access to telephone. Need cell for emergencies is LAME excuses! PLUS for the last 150 years, no one has cell phone, did they have problems? Of course not! so whats difference for today?
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The last time I saw a landline phone in a CLASSROOM was when I was in the 2nd grade while mainstreamed at a hearing school, and that was in 1987. I haven't seen one in a classroom (while mainstreamed) ever since. What if a school shooting happens? Yikes!
 
i graduated from high school in 1989 and we had landline phones in every classroom back then.
 
Hear Again said:
i graduated from high school in 1989 and we had landline phones in every classroom even back then.
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same here. I graduated in 2000. cell phones were expensive at that time. it was mostly payphones and pager.
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
The last time I saw a landline phone in a CLASSROOM was when I was in the 2nd grade while mainstreamed at a hearing school, and that was in 1987. I haven't seen one in a classroom (while mainstreamed) ever since. What if a school shooting happens? Yikes!
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no use for landline since everybody's using cellphone. and for school shootings... I believe a handful of schools have "panic button"
 
I think now that many students have cell phones, they don't equip classrooms with landline phones anymore.
 
Schools here do not allow the use of cell phones.

A lot of the parents disagree with cell phones allow their kids to play video games all day long.

So??
 
complain it to the companies and require these games to be removed LOL
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
Girl, 13, sends 14,528 texts in a month - UPI.com

This girl is gonna get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Arthritis by the time she's even 15 years old!



Talk about obsessive texting! And she's killing tons of trees, as well, with the 440 pages cell phone bill. Jesus.

If my hands and fingers didn't hurt so fucking much lately, and there weren't a risk of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Arthritis, I would sure as fucking hell try to set a Guinness world record and beat her at texting! Srsly.
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It was nothing for my step daughter when she was 17 to text over 9,000 in one month. We won't talk about diplining her..
 
I wouldn't allow my children to have a cell phone inless I see that they are muture enough to handle one rather they are 14, 16 or 18 and moving out. I went through hell with my step daughter and her cell phone. It was totally agreed apon that if she broke rules, falled her classes or talked on the phone past 9 her dad and i would take them away. You think that worked. Heck no! I would take it away b/c she brought home 4 F's, I noticed on the bill she was texting at school, (even though cell phones are banned from schools), and she was on the phone after 9 even sometimes till midnight. Her dad would go behind my back and give it back to her. In my opinion at 17 years old if she didn't have enough muturity to do better and respect to follow rules if it was my child she wouldn't have one period.

My soon to be ex pays 200 a month for 4 phones, with unlimited text on all of them.
 
Some of you said that unlimited text per 3 or 4 cell phones for $200 is good price... :shock: :eek3:

My oldest son use flat-rate (unlimited) cell phone for EUR 39.00 ($52.00) per month. My son can phone a lot whatever he wants... He text rarely but text only me for emergency because I can't phone... I do not need unlimited cell phone but prepaid card for texting. I use preipaid cell phone for EUR 15 = $19 between 4 and 5 months. I use preipaid cell phone for emergency only to my hubby and son... sometimes friends... My friends & I agree to not use cell phone unless emergency if we want to contact then use email, fax or online chat.

I see nothing wrong that teenagers use cell-phone with preipaid card which is good for them to learn to manage with money allowance, they received from their parents to pay their own prei-paid card... My youngest son use preipaid cell phone very rarely but use my phone mostly to chat with his friends on the phone, not cell phone. (my umlimited flat-rate phone/fax/internet connection for $52.00 per month.) I noticed that there're difference groups, my both sons have... My oldest son's cliques use cell-phones to chat instead of texting but my youngest son's cliques prefer to use phone to chat over cell-phones... because they said that preipaid card cost more than phone...
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
Words.
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Don't you think that's excessive? No communication outside the family except for a few pre-approved same gender friends? That's just a baby step up from a country such as Saudi Arabia. I somehow find very difficult to believe that you will be able to implement this without coming off as an obsessive and controlling tyrant, which would probably create more problems than your policies would solve. Etc. aggressively trying to score/hanging out with people you don't like to get you mad.

Anyways, I think the important part here is responsibility. The OP's article star and the later posted example are bad examples of responsibility, they used them way too much while neglecting the important things in life, but cell phones aren't just wastes of time teens use. They have an actual purpose that can be compromised/lost with bad usage.
 
Mockingbird said:
Don't you think that's excessive? No communication outside the family except for a few pre-approved same gender friends? That's just a baby step up from a country such as Saudi Arabia. I somehow find very difficult to believe that you will be able to implement this without coming off as an obsessive and controlling tyrant, which would probably create more problems than your policies would solve. Etc. aggressively trying to score/hanging out with people you don't like to get you mad.

Anyways, I think the important part here is responsibility. The OP's article star and the later posted example are bad examples of responsibility, they used them way too much while neglecting the important things in life, but cell phones aren't just wastes of time teens use. They have an actual purpose that can be compromised/lost with bad usage.
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The child would be only 11-13 years old (depending on what age she or he enters middle school - I entered middle school at 11 years old). Too young to be flirting with the opposite sex on the phone. She or he will gain the privilege to flirt with the opposite sex on the phone once she demonstrates maturity and/or turns 16 years old.
 
thats a lot for a month is really INSANE.

umm.. there are A LOT of teenagers have cellphones with unlimited texts.

its fad.
 
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