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Teenage Girl Sends 14,500 SMS Texts In 1 Month

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The alarming thing is, this is less than 10x what the average teenage kid sends: 1750 messages a month. That's one text message every 16.7 waking minutes.

Alarming, or a business opportunity waiting to be seized? Just think of the emerging market for thumb splints, glasses, and various callous creams.

I can't imagine texting that much without some fast input device like a chorded keyboard, as stenographers have. It's many buttons to a character, but you get 2^32 characters for only five buttons. I've wanted one for my own phone, maybe even non-geeky teenagers might want one as well? :-)

T9 on a standard numeric keypad is very fast once you've written a few thousand messages.

Disclaimer: I am not a teenager :-)

But it's not unusual for me to send a text to 30 people at a time, e.g.

    3 Crowns at 8pm, see you there?

So the numbers are completely believable.

some fast input device like a chorded keyboard, as stenographers have

Or this: http://www.handykey.com

This totally seems like a story from that newspaper in Sim City. How utterly pointless.

I'm always surprised how many articles sound like that. Especially when people are complaining about taxes or city ordinances, or a lack of police officers.

Funny, my 14 yo daughter just cleared 1,800 last month ...

I even caught her calling a friend to tell her she sent her a text ... didn't quite get that one

That seems a certain way to get RSI as a kid. Along with programming :-)

Though less through programming directly, but more by supporting activities like hanging out in IRC (and playing Nethack).

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