<p>ok, enough about SAT scores and Ivy League colleges. Let’s see whose kid is tops in numbers of text messages sent/received. I’ll start. This billing period isn’t even over and D has compiled a grand total of:</p>
<p>1,746</p>
<p>(glad we went with the unlimited plan!)</p>
<p>Are her thumbs sore?!! I hear that some upscale business hotels are offering hand massages for their Blackberry toting executive clients…</p>
<p>Really!? My parents have just recently spent hours on the phone with our cell phone company trying to get what we thought had to be a mistake taken care of–they said my brother had sent 1000 text messages from the 1st to the 18th of November or something like that. My mom called me to see if 1000 text messages was a mistake, and I said it didn’t even seem to be possible to send so many…I guess I’ll have to reconsider…</p>
<p>Gee, kids today…</p>
<p>bing-the text messaging goes like this:</p>
<p>r u awake?
yes
oh
how r u
ok
i miss u
me 2
really?
yes</p>
<p>and on and on and on and on!</p>
<p>Parents, make sure you’re kid has a plan with free in-text messaging or you could be paying 10 cents per message or worse!</p>
<p>My high school son is a amateur (300 texts/month), but when we were discussing which plan would work for him, a young man in the store said he sent/rec’d 200 to 300 text messages per day. :eek:</p>
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<p>Better yet, delete textmessaging capability from their phones! :)</p>
<p>My mother was horrified to see that I had sent/received 168 texts last month. I was a little shocked as well, but I wasn’t too worried since I had already offered to pay for texts (knew it would be an issue). Now she’s signed me up for an extra part of the plan that gives me 100 texts per month, but I really don’t understand why she opted for the smallest plan when I clearly went over that last time and the price difference per month between this and the next highest plan is only a couple of dollars. I need to send her to this site! 168 doesn’t sound so bad anymore.</p>
<p>Can the kids with 1000+ text without looking with one hand while walking and talking? I know a girl who can!</p>
<p>I wish we had a plan with free text-messaging. We recently had to crack down on S2’s frivolous messaging. My favorite one, though, was when he was taking “behind the wheel” driving hours and was in the back seat while the other kid was driving. He sent, “This sux.” I could feel his pain.</p>
<p>D’s friends all use Verizon, so we got her a Verizon plan. If she calls or texts to other verizon users, it doesn’t count against her allotted minutes/messages, so it’s virtually unlimited.</p>
<p>Most carriers have similar plans, so find out what all company all the friends use and switch!</p>
<p>I decided years ago that I didn’t want to fight about minutes or messages, so I opted for unlimited/free plans. We’ve got to pick our battles!</p>
<p>Does my son win with zero? He doesn’t have a cell phone.</p>
<p>mathmom–No, no…the higher, the better! 
I’m trying to win something here!</p>
<p>baseball mom
we have verizon too- but not the plan where within network text is free
in fact my D sends me so many text messages ( are you here yet?.. I am on the bus… I want to go to Target after school…) that I ran over my 250 messages for $5.</p>
<p>I have to remind her to call me if she needs to, thats free, but I don’t like text & I can’t do it in the car!</p>
<p>Most people we know have minimal on their plans & make the kids pay for going over & take the phones away until they do, especially when they are sending 100 a day to their boyfriend who doesn’t attend the same school ( or even if he does!)</p>
<p>Emeraldkitty-I just checked my bill. We pay $5 per month for unlimited “in-network” messaging and sending of 50 camera shots.</p>
<p>During the last month of my daughter’s stay in Russia during 11th grade, there were more than 3000 text messages sent/received – I think the number was closer to 4000 – because I remember the 3000 from the bill, and she had a plan where the first 1000 were pre-paid. The others were 3 cents/message - so it was more than $90 in text messages.</p>
<p>The bill was huge - I think about 50 pages long! </p>
<p>I didn’t say anything to d – a lot of those were incoming messages because by that point quite a few of her California friends had realized they could IM her, and she had little control over what she received. Needless to say, once she was back home, the rate subsided on its own.</p>
<p>I have a quick question…can you see the text messages on the bill? As in, can you see who they were to, who they were from, what the message was, etc?</p>
<p>yes, if you pay $1.99 for detailed messaging (on Verizon, anyway)</p>
<p>My 16 year old daughter routinely exceeds 3,500 text messages a month. We pay for 2500, not including those within our plan, which are free. She usually flirts with the 2500 (we’ve taught her to cut back if she’s high towards the end of the billing cycle) and she usually has around 1000 in-plan texts.</p>
<p>Ugh, maybe my mom should get that. My sister went over last month by something like $160. I, on the other hand, don’t even use texting. I barely use my phone at all, actually. ;/</p>
<p>My husband limits my kids to $5.00 worth of text messages per month. If they go over, they pay the whole thing. It is sort of hard though, because their friends send messages and then they have to pay for them. College son claims they don’t really ever TALK on their phones (now, there’s a surprise); it’s all text messaging. I think H was going to look into trying to add free ones to our service, but I don’t know where we are on that…</p>