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Highest text usage you've ever seen?
I just saw a teenage girl come in the other day who had used over 27,000 text messages last month, combined with almost 3100 minutes as well. I'm trying to find out the logistics of how this could even work, especially because her phone doesn't even have a QWERTY keypad.
I'm sure you guys have seen more though, so share your records!
I'm sure you guys have seen more though, so share your records!
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27,000?! 😳
My highest was only about 1,000. A laughable amount compared to yours.
My highest was only about 1,000. A laughable amount compared to yours.
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The most text I have seen was just shy of 10,000. The mother didn't have a package on the account. Her bill was $1,900. Needless to say her daughter probably lost her thumbs. But, 27,000 texts in one month is alot of text.
If you do the math, if she was awake 16 hours a day, that is a possible 960 minutes. Multiply that by a 30 day month, that is 28,800 minutes.
That would mean that every single minute that she is awake, she has sent or received roughly one text message. On top of using 3100 minutes. To sum everything up, she has NO life. IMO.
If you do the math, if she was awake 16 hours a day, that is a possible 960 minutes. Multiply that by a 30 day month, that is 28,800 minutes.
That would mean that every single minute that she is awake, she has sent or received roughly one text message. On top of using 3100 minutes. To sum everything up, she has NO life. IMO.
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If you figure 30 days in a month, and 16 waking hours in a day, that's nearly a message a minute for 16 hours a day. 😳
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She must not be very bright though. She would have to do alot of that texting during school. I'm sure she's not studying very much.
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Very possible, but also consider my personal usage averages 45k, but it's not all text. One, if she's using IM that will run up really fast. And for me I have my email forwarded to my phone via text message so that's average eight pages per email.
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More than likely she's using IM. The funny thing though is, the person she's IM'ng probably sits 2 seats behind her in class. Typical high school girl shenannigans.
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Eh, I did the same thing in high school. I had it worked out so nearly everyone in the class would be in an AIM chatroom during tests or quizzes. It worked beautifully.
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Damn, if only text messaging existed when i was in high school. Cheating on tests would have been alot easier then.
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After working in this industry and seeing the general population I think I'm just fine.
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because the kids aren't applying themselves to meet the standard and the system as it is teaches to the minimum requirements, instead of pushing to get the maximum effort out of the kids
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Are you aware of what the minimum requirements are? Schools would need to be a) meeting on Saturdays b) going longer each day and c) going year around in order to meet all requirements as set, as it is teachers aren't able to meet all requirements in the time allotted no matter how apt the student is to learning. Take in account for slower students or those students who don't test well and it makes our education system look like a joke. Or consider those students who either work or take part in sports (all of them) and think about what else they have to do and due to the high standards they simply get overstressed and no longer want to do any of it.
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well, i disagree, on the account that I have four good friends that are Public school teachers and they all say they can get their students to do better if they would simply stop texting and doing other sh!t..oops stuf and get to work. there is a reason they are called Student-athletes and student workers... the student part should be first.
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I have seen something similar
we bill for sent AND recieved in our system.
The customer was complaing about SPAM
we bill for sent AND recieved in our system.
The customer was complaing about SPAM
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The most I have ever seen was 25000 text. A customer I acted got the phone for his son. He wanted to do IM. At the time we didn't have unlimited txt so I told him if he got the 5.99 t-zones he could log in there and use it unlimited. I made sure to tell them not to log into the IM app on the phone because that was different. Of course they didn't listen and just for his sons txts was over $1000.00.
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my girlfriend used 12000 one month...they werent to me....needless to say, thats not my girlfriend anymore
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the most i used, without IM or email forwarding to my phone, was a bit over 5000.
i dont have a qwerty either.
but stupid broads can run up my total very quickly
i dont have a qwerty either.
but stupid broads can run up my total very quickly
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and in the morning its GIRLS!
And in the evening its GIRLS!
Two at a time I want GIRLS!
And in the evening its GIRLS!
Two at a time I want GIRLS!
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Most I've ever seen is 7,500. I thought that would have burned up the keypad! 😳
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Highest usage I've ever seen was actually mine....at 8500 lol. I was a textaholic that month, I can't even fathom 27k!!
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Personally my highest is 6,800... but then again i'm on the phones 10 hours a day, so I dont really feel like talking when I leave here.
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kid had a V3m and did 11000 his dad and I decided it might be good for him to lear something in school that next week so dad had me BLOCK ALL text messaging to his phone. the next month was well under 1000 for his next bill
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definitely possible, especially if she is sending and receiving to multiple others at the same time and each recipient/sender counts as a separate message. So if she is sending messages to 10 other people at the same time as most phones allow, (some allow more) that makes it a lot easier to reach 27000 messages.
Still a ridiculous lack of/waste of time, energy and a life though. and that's not IMO, that's fact.
Still a ridiculous lack of/waste of time, energy and a life though. and that's not IMO, that's fact.
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the 3100min was that daytime min, or total min used? it roughly brakes down to 1.7hrs per day in a 30day cycle.
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I've had a customer come in and I had to look up her bill and she had used 25,000. I don't know what her minute usage was but I was like DAMN that's alot of texting.
My personal best will probaly be this month where I'll have used about 2000 or so text messages.
My personal best will probaly be this month where I'll have used about 2000 or so text messages.
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lecherousjester said:
I just saw a teenage girl come in the other day who had used over 27,000 text messages last month, combined with almost 3100 minutes as well. I'm trying to find out the logistics of how this could even work, especially because her phone doesn't even have a QWERTY keypad.
I'm sure you guys have seen more though, so share your records!
Well, if that girl had unlimited text messaging then she's really got a lot of bang for her buck. If not, I think the guy in Canada who racked up an 80K phone bill will be a perfect husband for her.
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BigShowJB said:
and they can adopt that girl who racked up $10K in text messaging charges
in her defense she was devlopementally challenged.. these other folks have nothing wrong with them except for lacking common sense
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well actually the guy with the 85K bill does have an excuse , he's canadian.
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When will they give that one up.... i am so tired of hearing "Sorry, I'm Canadian" 🤣
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when global warming takes enough of a toll to defrost the brain connections aft being in all that ice and snow for all these thousands of years
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i saw the bill. my coworker showed me a bill with 97000 txt messages. i dont even know how someone can do have that amount in a month. its crazy
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That's near enough to impossible to call it impossible. id have to see that one myself seeing as how that is a text every 17 waking seconds, figuring for 8 hours of sleep per night.
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if ya factor in the 2-second IM responses, one word a piece, that might account for it.
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BOWDOWN said:
i saw the bill. my coworker showed me a bill with 97000 txt messages. i dont even know how someone can do have that amount in a month. its crazy
BOWDOWN said:
yea i didnt believe him either, until he pulled up the account
Did he show you a bill, or show you the account?? 🤨
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actually in most casses you can pull up a customers bill from their account at least thats how we do it in care. . .
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You have to remember they will charge you double minues if you put someone on hold. Also if you send one text to everyone in your phonebook. It is quite easy.
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Remember all those text chains? Kids these days pass them around like its the end of the world if they don't
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i have personally used more tha 4k for the past 7 months running....the peak was at 6300, 27000 is just unnatural
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