Text Messaging = $$$$$$$$$
Working for a wireless carrier… every time I see one of these articles, it consistently amazes me that this usage is 100% profit for the company – no overhead whatsoever. I need to invent something like this!!!
Everyone knows that teens love to text, but sometimes it gets way out of control. Especially when your parents open a $5000 cell phone bill. This is the case with 13 year old Dena Christoffersen of Cheyenne, Wyoming who is responsible for sending and receiving over 20,000 text messages in one month. She averaged 700 texts per day, which I’m not even sure is humanly possible. After receiving the bill, her father took a hammer to the phone (I already like this guy) and was grounded to the end of the school year.
In order to help her parents out, the entertainment service provider Predicto has offered to foot the entire bill on their behalf. In exchange for the company’s generosity, Dena has to write an essay on the importance of taking responsibility for your mobile phone habits and what she has learned from the experience. Predicto is going to post the essay on its blog as a warning to both teens and parents about how much out of control texting can cost you. Hopefully, parents will realize the need to better monitor their teen’s phone usage and teens will appreciate that overboard texting comes at a high price.
[via gadgetell]
