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scaught · Jun 28, 2006, 01:23 PM

in the timeframe of may 19th through june 18th, i sent or recieved 937 text messages. sometimes, i amaze myself. this is approximately 30 per day. it should be noted that the last 3 days of the time period mentioned i was camping in canada and sent or recieved no text messages, thus improving my text-per-day rate. anyone else using a ridiculous amount of text messages?

Landos Mustache · Jun 28, 2006, 01:27 PM

Holy crap. I send about 75 a month and receive about 100.

Stradlater · Jun 28, 2006, 01:29 PM

Don't text message regularly. I think it makes more sense to actually make the call, most of the time. If I cannot talk and the message needs to be delivered ASAP (and one of us cannot get to email), I'll bite, but that happens only a few times a month.

Landos Mustache · Jun 28, 2006, 01:31 PM

BTW were did you go camping?

davesimondotcom · Jun 28, 2006, 01:40 PM

Holy crap that's a lot of text messages... I average about 50 total sent/received in a month...

forkies · Jun 28, 2006, 01:47 PM

i'm in the send + receive = ~200 group

Doofy · Jun 28, 2006, 01:54 PM

I'm in the < 5 per year group.

TheoCryst · Jun 28, 2006, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by davesimondotcom

Holy crap that's a lot of text messages... I average about 50 total sent/received in a month...

Same here... how can you sent 30 in a day???

ort888 · Jun 28, 2006, 02:06 PM

I just got a new phone that let's you actually talk to the other person rather then just send them a text only message. It's quite the breakthrough. I think this is going to revolutionize the way we communicate.

IceEnclosure · Jun 28, 2006, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by scaught

in the timeframe of may 19th through june 18th, i sent or recieved 937 text messages. sometimes, i amaze myself. this is approximately 30 per day. it should be noted that the last 3 days of the time period mentioned i was camping in canada and sent or recieved no text messages, thus improving my text-per-day rate. anyone else using a ridiculous amount of text messages?

gald durn, that's ridiculous. what are you, some kind of high school teen beat upskirt whoo-er?

I'm probably around 150/month total.

I'm an idiot on a whole different level with my one time cellular bill of over $5000 US dollars (one month, voice and apparently A LOT of data)

olePigeon · Jun 28, 2006, 02:11 PM

We can't buy anything that leaves the ground. So we buy model rocket engines seperately.

Kinda hard to find during the 4th, but I have a ton laying around from 50 packs I bought for my rockets anyway.

Sage · Jun 28, 2006, 02:15 PM

I’ve sent three or four texts my entire life. And I’m not an old fart – 18, and got my cellphone at 14. Then again I use my cell so little that I’m on one of those pay-as-you-go plans.

IceEnclosure · Jun 28, 2006, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

We can't buy anything that leaves the ground. So we buy model rocket engines seperately.

Kinda hard to find during the 4th, but I have a ton laying around from 50 packs I bought for my rockets anyway.

didja lose your thread?

Gossamer · Jun 28, 2006, 02:26 PM

I've had my new phone for about two weeks. Since then I've sent about 5 and received about 20, around half of which were my GF telling to get on AIM.

Landos Mustache · Jun 28, 2006, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

I've had my new phone for about two weeks. Since then I've sent about 5 and received about 20, around half of which were my GF telling to get on AIM.

She text messages you so she can text you some more? she doesn't like talking to you?

Landos Mustache · Jun 28, 2006, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure

I'm an idiot on a whole different level with my one time cellular bill of over $5000 US dollars (one month, voice and apparently A LOT of data)

Did you actually pay that?

scaught · Jun 28, 2006, 03:01 PM

^ ya, seriously. $5000 is INSANE. 937 text messages certainly puts me in some level of "teen beat girl" camp, but a 5k phone bill is out of control.

scaught · Jun 28, 2006, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

BTW were did you go camping?

elora gorge conservation area. it was really nice. the alcohol was outrageously expensive (13 bucks for a mediocre 6 pack, 15 bucks for a pint of jaeger), how do you canadians get drunk?

Gossamer · Jun 28, 2006, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by scaught

^ ya, seriously. $5000 is INSANE. 937 text messages certainly puts me in some level of "teen beat girl" camp, but a 5k phone bill is out of control.

If I remember right, he didn't realize his plan didn't include data, and he got it figured out after that bill.
SWG: Due to unique situations, phone calling doesn't work well as far as long distance charges and minutes used (I share with my sis) but voice chatting on iChat is free

Landos Mustache · Jun 28, 2006, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by scaught

elora gorge conservation area. it was really nice. the alcohol was outrageously expensive (13 bucks for a mediocre 6 pack, 15 bucks for a pint of jaeger), how do you canadians get drunk?

We don't need to, we got tons of pot

production_coordinator · Jun 28, 2006, 03:35 PM

I'm in the send+ receive: <150 group.

ort888 · Jun 28, 2006, 03:35 PM

I knew a girl who racked up about $8,000 in cell phone charges over a 3 month period. This was in the late 90's when fees were still pretty outragious. The most retarded thing was that it took her months to do it. You would think the first $2,500 phone bill might make you shut the F up, but no.

Landos Mustache · Jun 28, 2006, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

I knew a girl who racked up about $8,000 in cell phone charges over a 3 month period. This was in the late 90's when fees were still pretty outragious. The most retarded thing was that it took her months to do it. You would think the first $2,500 phone bill might make you shut the F up, but no.

Did she pay it or did her daddy?

IceEnclosure · Jun 28, 2006, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by scaught

^ ya, seriously. $5000 is INSANE. 937 text messages certainly puts me in some level of "teen beat girl" camp, but a 5k phone bill is out of control.

yea, like gossamer said, I worked it out with the provider. It was all pretty humorous (opening the bill, etc.)

Chuckit · Jun 28, 2006, 04:08 PM

I send maybe 15 text messages per month.

Peter · Jun 28, 2006, 04:55 PM

I get free texts so i spend about 1200 a month probably..

production_coordinator · Jun 28, 2006, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Did she pay it or did her daddy?

Girl: "Ugh... NO!... I paid for it with my credit card" that daddy pays for

ort888 · Jun 28, 2006, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Did she pay it or did her daddy?

She started porking some 45 year old guy who paid it for her. (She was 20 or so)

sek929 · Jun 28, 2006, 05:20 PM

I neither send nor receive text messages.

Well, I get them from time to time, but I can't tell who they're from, so meh.

mdc · Jun 28, 2006, 05:21 PM

I'm around 1000 text messages a month.
I just find it a lot quicker to type out a message and send it off than making a phonecall. obviously full conversations are done by speaking, but often when i'm sitting at work I can't sit on the phone so i'll type out a good few text messages.

I also have a lot of friends overseas and it's cheaper to text them than it is to phone them.

stwain2003 · Jun 28, 2006, 06:14 PM

Don't worry. My friend SENT 200 text messages in six hours. 200. 2 HUNDREDDD!!!

Andy8 · Jun 28, 2006, 06:21 PM

Average 10 per day, sometimes double that.

gururafiki · Jun 28, 2006, 06:26 PM

I like sending/receiving text messages with my friends who use ichat.

Axo1ot1 · Jun 28, 2006, 06:27 PM

Text is the shizzle. Phonecalls are for brain cancer victims.

CMYKid · Jun 28, 2006, 07:58 PM

I do a good 1000+ a month, however I also talk 3000 or so minutes each cycle. Texts are great tho, it gives me something to do during meetings...

And, I am completely serious when I say that I think texting has done more for the random hookup/booty call thing then beer ever did. Its one thing for a girl to call a guy and say "Hey, wanna fsck?", much less likely to happen...but sending a text at 3am that says "hey, whatcha doin?" is a different thing entirely.

This what i've concluded from extensive surveying of friends and such...interesting from an anthropological standpoint.

Ozmodiar · Jun 28, 2006, 08:31 PM

I'm around 200 a month, usually less.

Has anyone ever gotten SMS spam? Once in a while I get a text from some random yahoo email address, and sometimes it's in Spanish.

starman · Jun 28, 2006, 08:32 PM

I make like 10/month.

ghporter · Jun 28, 2006, 08:48 PM

Maybe three or four on a big month. Sometimes it's worth my time to text when I know something like accuracy is important with numbers and such, but most of the time I prefer to actually speak with the person I'm communicating with.

CMYKid · Jun 28, 2006, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by Ozmodiar

Has anyone ever gotten SMS spam?

Yep, and send it.

Used to anyway. It was a hugely untapped market because it's easy to send if you have a gateway. basically you find out which areacode/prefix combinations are assigned to which carrier, then send a message to that particular carriers address, i.e. [email protected], for every number between xxx-xxx-0001 and xxx-xxx-9999

from a senders standpoint it was a lot better because, assuming the subscriber had text messaging, it was a guaranteed delivery since you usually have to read before deleting, unlike email. No spam filters either and at that point it time completely not governed by anti spam type laws.

IceEnclosure · Jun 28, 2006, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by CMYKid

...I think texting has done more for the random hookup/booty call thing then beer ever did. Its one thing for a girl to call a guy and say "Hey, wanna fsck?", much less likely to happen...but sending a text at 3am that says "hey, whatcha doin?" is a different thing entirely.

I couldn't agree more.

E's Lil Theorem · Jun 28, 2006, 10:27 PM

I average about 300 per month. Sometimes you just want to let someone know one thing and it's not worth making a call. Often times I'm find myself in a boring meeting/conference call where others are going at it with their blackberries, so I txt people to keep myself entertained.

ghporter · Jun 28, 2006, 10:37 PM

I forgot to mention the few SMS spams I've received. They were all in Spanish; I don't know why. That stopped shortly after it started, and it's been a long time.

Gossamer · Jun 29, 2006, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by CMYKid

Yep, and send it.

How can you sleep at night?

mdc · Jun 29, 2006, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Ozmodiar

I'm around 200 a month, usually less.

Has anyone ever gotten SMS spam? Once in a while I get a text from some random yahoo email address, and sometimes it's in Spanish.

I got one or two back when I was living in South Africa, none while I've been here in the USA.

Apple Pro Underwear · Jun 29, 2006, 10:18 PM

i love texting too. i fancy myself as entertaining, so I amuse a bunch of my lady friends throughout the day.

surprisingly I don't text a single male person for "fun"

rickey939 · Jun 29, 2006, 10:30 PM

3 - 7.897 a month.

Railroader · Jun 29, 2006, 10:49 PM

Me and a few friends only send pics and audio. Hardly any TXT messages.

whgoodman · Jun 29, 2006, 11:02 PM

I would like to thank all those addicted to texting. As an employee of a US inter-carrier messaging company you're putting money in my pocket with every send.

Walt

christ · Jun 30, 2006, 10:03 AM

I sent one once.

kaze0 · Jun 30, 2006, 10:55 AM

i sent 46000 last month. booooyah