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Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills
theodp writes "Last month, Washington high school junior Sofia Rubenstein used 6,807 text messages, which, at a rate of 15 cents apiece for most of them, pushed her family's Verizon Wireless bill over $1,100. She and other teens are finding themselves in hot water after their families get blindsided with huge phone bills thanks to hefty a la carte text messaging charges." Use of SMS in the US doubled from 2005 to 2006.
Solution: forbid her from texting her bff Jill.
So hitting F5 on Slashdot regularly is better?
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Finger massage.
That'll cost her family another 30c.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Perhaps you should take advantage of the new and popular acronyms to save time and make texting easier. Here are some relevant to your interests:
GOML (get off my lawn)
IGAB (I got a bingo!)
DFOL (dentures fell out laughing)
If you were honestly thinking about divorce over a paltry sum of $200, you really might wanna go over why you married in the first place. :)
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
Don't you mean?
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What was your number again?
Durex.
Nuff said.
Pretty much every parent in my office knows more about cells than their kids.
Of course, I do work for Openwave.
And to think they could have gotten 'unlimited texting' for only $5 a month.
"To be is to do." --Socrates
"To do is to be." -- Aristotle
"Do-Be-Do-Be-Do..." --Sinatra
> But what if you're a good parent and your child is just plain evil?
I heard somewhere that Dr. Evil is looking for children to adopt, he's apparently not quite satisfied with "one calorie" Scott.
Is that .07 dollars or .07 cents?
Verizon: Yes.
Everyone who said it was sent to timeout.
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that $200 bill almost spelled divorce.
That's a solid relationship you have there.
He was being literal. When he ripped the bill into shreds and threw it on the floor, the pieces spelled out D-I-V-O-R-E-C.
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The sentence is fine, it's Dow Chemical I'm worried about.
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You don't need to plan that. You're posting on Slashdot, right?
which is why I'm holding my daughter's $2000 piano as hostage until she pays up. Hope it was worth it.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
So you would agree that texting while driving would be so stupid that even a moron would know not to, right? Unfortunately, I witness texting while driving about once a week, and I'm in the US where even our morons are dumber.
I am not a crackpot.
Excuse me, but are you comparing misbehaving children to murderers, rapists and child molesters? Please report to your nearest reproductive health clinic for a swift and thorough removal of your ability to reproduce. Thank you.
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