As I have written here before, a couple of texting “records” have happened in my family; at one point my oldest daughter had more than 3K text messages in one month, and more recently my youngest daughter had around 1,300.
This past weekend at soccer, I was talking to a good friend of mine about texting. My friend said…
“…so we had to talk to our daughter — last month her texting count was 19K text messages”
I, having previous experience with daughters and texting said:
“…nah, that’s nothing, my daughters had 1,300 and 3K”
he said:
“no, Enrique, you didn’t understand, I said 19 THOUSAND!!!”
To what I responded…
“what the hell, no way! that’s crazy!”
Wow, 19 thousand messages — that is an average of ~633 (sent and received) messages a day…
That reminds me, have you ever seen my essay Texting and The Evolution of the Thumb?
ceo