Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000.
For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000.
Sigh.
Well, at least T-Mobile credited the charges back…but something tells me that this isn’t what they really mean when they say “unlimited text messaging”.
Assuming they texted every day in March (although it says they spent “most” of the month texting, I’m making this easy on myself), that’s 3500 texts per day EACH. (And it’s really worse than that, because one of them sent twice as many texts as the other did.)
Folks, there are only 1440 minutes in a day. That’s 2.4 messages PER MINUTE, EVERY MINUTE ALL DAY. If we assume that they must sleep 8 hours out of 24, it becomes 3.65 per minute…or something like a message every 16.4 seconds.
Even my niece doesn’t text that much.
Lame. Impressive…but lame.