Teen Iowa girl wins US texting title..$50,000 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

transplant99 · 06-17-2009, 10:08 AM

Seriously....society is now rewarding people for this??

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For the Des Moines, Iowa, teenager, her 14,000 texts-per-month habit reaped its own rewards, landing her the competition prize of $50,000 just eight months after she got her first cell phone

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In between, she finds time to send about 400 to 470 texts a day. Among her uses of the text messages? Studying for exams with friends, which she says is better done by text because she can look back at the messages to review

Ugh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090616/...g_championship

BlackArcher101 · 06-17-2009, 10:10 AM

I predict high insurance rates for her when shes able to drive.

FanIn80 · 06-17-2009, 10:11 AM

She has a point tho about the studying... makes me wish we had cells back when we were kids.

...of course, I wouldn't actually be studying... more like "studying."

Joborule · 06-17-2009, 10:12 AM

I saw this quick interview when I turn on the TV.

Unbelievable that people are actually getting rewarded for this.

FanIn80 · 06-17-2009, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

I predict high insurance rates for her when shes able to drive.

I predict she'll wear a short skirt when she goes in for a quote, and leave with a pretty good discount.

albertGQ · 06-17-2009, 10:13 AM

good 4 her
she dsrvs it!

ken0042 · 06-17-2009, 10:13 AM

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which she says is better done by text because she can look back at the messages to review

OK, what kind of phone does she have that lets her save hundreds or thousands of texts? Because mine only lets me save 100.

kermitology · 06-17-2009, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ken0042

OK, what kind of phone does she have that lets her save hundreds or thousands of texts? Because mine only lets me save 100.

iPhone? It saves a lot of texts. Shows them in a conversation thread.

Locke · 06-17-2009, 10:15 AM

That $50k wont even put a dent in her phone bill. When she grows up and has to get a job to pay for that crap it'll really cramp her txting average.

Its tough to text your BFF when you're serving me my fries.

Swayze11 · 06-17-2009, 10:16 AM

I hope her daddy bought her a unlimited texting plan or the bill might be $50,000

edit: Oh wait this is in the states so she probably has unlimited everything possible for $30, where us canadians get screwed my the cell phone companies.

Resolute 14 · 06-17-2009, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Joborule

I saw this quick interview when I turn on the TV.

Unbelievable that people are actually getting rewarded for this.

If competitive hot dog eating can make ESPN...

BlackArcher101 · 06-17-2009, 10:20 AM

Geez, I wonder if she used a LG phone like the previous 2 winners.
I'd bet there's a teen elsewhere that texts even more, but they didn't use a LG.

malcolmk14 · 06-17-2009, 10:22 AM

I text quite often, but nowhere near 14,000 times a month.

I'd say I send probably between 1,200 and 1,500 a month... But the people I talk to most are on Blackberry Messenger, so those don't count towards my totals.

Joborule · 06-17-2009, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Resolute 14

If competitive hot dog eating can make ESPN...

That's different. That's important.

Galakanokis · 06-17-2009, 10:22 AM

And to think I got pissed at my teenager when he was texting to much. I should have been encouraging him! I could be bloody rich.

I text a dozen times a week and I think it is to much.

Bring_Back_Shantz · 06-17-2009, 10:40 AM

Okay that is seriously messed up.
If she's sending 400 texts per day, and assuming she's sleeping 8 hours per day, that means she's sending a text about ever 2 minutes.
And that's assuming her teachers have no problem with her texting while in class.

How the hell do yo do that? Does this girl do anything else durring the day?

troutman · 06-17-2009, 10:43 AM

I love the names of all the texters on the Jim Rome show:

ex. Texter Manley, Text and Candy

Tower · 06-17-2009, 10:43 AM

That advertising will pay for itself.

albertGQ · 06-17-2009, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Okay that is seriously messed up.
If she's sending 400 texts per day, and assuming she's sleeping 8 hours per day, that means she's sending a text about ever 2 minutes.
And that's assuming her teachers have no problem with her texting while in class.

How the hell do yo do that? Does this girl do anything else durring the day?

She can easily text "You coming to the movies?" to dozens of her friends in one text. That will count for as many texts as she sends the same message to

CaptainCrunch · 06-17-2009, 11:11 AM

Its awesome that we're raising a future generation of technology reliant retards. One day my grandkid will come up to me and say Grandpa Crunch, can you look at this report that I did on WWII, and all the facts will be wrong because he used Wiki as his informational source. I'll tell him to go to the Library and actually do research and he'll ask me what a Library is. Then I'll shoot his parents and his teachers.