Florida 13-Year-Old Sets Text Message Record

[Richard]

14-Jan-2009
Written by: Yong Lee

14,258 text messages in one month

How often do you text? Thirty, maybe forty times a day? If you were to average a text message every two minutes for every waking hour of the day for a month, you just might reach the new record set by 13-year-old Reina Hardesty.

The Florida teenager was responsible for 14,258 text messages last month as the result of being bored on winter break, reports the New York Post. Her father, reporter Greg Hardesty, at first laughed at the 440-page online AT&T statement, then grabbed a calculator to see if it was actually possible. After confirming that the bill was not an error, he immediately contacted his daughter. Of course, he did it by text message.

Greg admits to about 900 text messages per month himself, about 700 more than the average for his age group, according to a Nielsen study of phone usage. The same study found that the 13-17 year-old age group averages 1,742 text messages a month.

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[Sily]

Well............. here's the thing -- I can't believe they published this kid's name, I can't believe her father made this public, I can't believe this kid feels that texting is a *cure* for boredom.  And finally to answer How often do you text?  How about never.

[DreamTime]

Once in a blue moon, here!

[Richard]

I never text either. I’m too slow of a typist for texting back and forth. I would rather talk than text.

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[16.01.2009 10:30] 

What is the World Record for Text Messages Sent in a Month?

If you have been following mainstream media for the last couple of days, you may have heard about a 13-year-old girl who sent 14,000 text messages in a single month, according to Mobile Magazine . That sounds like a lot of SMS, but it pales in comparison to the official world record.

A 14-year-old girl from Florida, for instance, used her Sprint phone to send and receive somewhere in the neighborhood of 35,000 text messages. This wasn`t just one freak of nature kind of month either, because she repeated the feat at least one other time. For those of you looking to crunch the numbers, this works out to nearly 1200 text messages a day.

Given these two examples, you`d almost assume that teenage girls were the SMS rulers of the land. Wrong! As it turns out, the person who holds the Guinness World Record for text messages sent in a single month is Deepak Sharma, a grown man. Whereas those girls were able to bring their text messages into five figures, Mr. Sharma bumped it up to six figures.

The current record calls for 182,689 messages in a single month. This works out to 6,100 messages a day or 4.2 messages a minute. In this way, he was effectively sending or receiving a text message every fifteen seconds. These guys had better have unlimited texting plans, because if they were paying for each one at 20 cents or so, Deepak would owe over $36,000 for that month in SMS charges alone.

I`m clearly well behind this trend, as I`ve never sent more than 100 text messages a month.

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