A text message addict.....

lol yea i dont do the lingo. I just type out the words most people dont know all the abr including me :)

Yes, she did tell me she had the unlimited text msg plan .... as I was pulling myself up off the floor when she told me about the 6,000! She has it down tho, all abbreviations and "cell phone shorthand". Not only do you have to get this tap, tap , tap thing down, but you have to learn a new language!!!!

So she says using 'abr"!!! To funny! See, you are learning it and dont' even know it! I have found I have learned alot of the abbreviations (okay, abr's!) from her and tend to use them, but my reason is cause i have the keypad type phone, not the keyboard style. one tap of the first letter, two taps for the second letter, three taps for the thrid letter - I drive my self crazy keeping track of what I typed as for what I am saying! I have even forgot what I was trying to say cause I was so busy keeping track of the taps for which letter! I started picking up the abr's out of shear necessity to combate insanity!!!

That would be nice, but apparently it's a very special kind of multitasking skill LOL only works for that kind of stuff:)

If you are, so am I! Let's just hope that can take that multi=tasking talent and put it to good work when they need to!

Good that you make her contribute! She is learning money don't grow on trees! My daughter is 29. She pays her own bills and I am proud of how well she has done. I think she wastes money alot (like this cell phone! her bill last month was $400! - I didn't ask why, I was busy pulling myself up off the floor!)but veryone sees things differently. She is being repsonsible and pays her bills, and things like that so moneywise I can't complain (although I think she should alocatte her money differently but that's my opinion!). I just think, somanya things she could be doing with all that time that could make a difference, then I think - well, to me that is a waste of time, but to her it is enjoyment. She did up her plan to get unlimited free messages, didn't ask what that costs!

oneandone - after she told me that nad I fell on the floor, she did say her plan has unlimited texting, so at least I was able to recoop! I was under the impression it was 10 cents per msg, as she put me on her plan and told me that I have 100 in and 100 out msg for free. I thought that was what she had too! But it could have changed as that as a while ago. She is the only one I text (she doesn't call and talk to me, just text!) and sometimes my son, other than that i don't text.

how in the world does one end up with a $400 cell phone bill if they have unlimited?

I thought about it, but ususally she is on the go when she texts the most. And she can text from work, but can't access PC there.

You're singing my song! That is what I keep telling my daughter, but can't convince her of that!

Yeah, call and be done with it and move on in life! Ever thought how long - as in how many minutes - it takes to text a full conversation? But what I think many do is just do bits and pieces of a conversation, lot of single word responses, and they just dont get the art of conversation anymore! IF all I get are single word or single syllable answers, how important can the question be?!?!?

I'd still rather speak to someone and have them speak to me - ear phones were the best invention, in my book! There is just more to say than a text msg can accomodate. Great if you just want want short answers or just yes/no, but sometimes there needs to be more said and this back and forth gets annoying to me - I forget what they said, what I said, who am I talking to again? If I get texted, I usually answer soon, but what if I can't and hours later I text and they forgot they asked, or cause I didn't answer sooner, they did something else and visa versa? Oh well, they say progress is progress, guess those back pre-telephone days thought the same thing when the talking box came out!

We'd better watch what we say here on MyloT - I'd be under the impressio that typing a conversation is the samae as speaking a conversation, so while we here "type" our words, can you imagen how much we "type" instead of speaking!!?!?! I'd be willing to bet I'm nearly 250,000, all words/text/type included! Do you think you would be? !

If you have that much to say, I guess say it, but I just can't imagen. but then again, its be awhile since I was 29 and single!

She did mention she had the unlimited plan - after I picked myself up off the floor! Funny, things kids forget to mention!

I guess if you have alot to say - why not? have to watch what I do say - typing and emailing are "talking" too and I do alot of that!

Well, now that's a thought! I'll pass that on to her!

Yes. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1373013.aspx I did send her this, she has not commented!

HOnestly, I think she was a bit thrown when she made that realization - at least her face expression was a bit odd. Last year for christmas I got her a $50 gift card to Starbucks. I asked her, just idol chit chat kind of way, how many days that would last her? She did some calculations and I saw her face literally drop! I said, "good grief, I didn't mean to upset you!" She says, "no, I just did the math - that will only last me 29 days! That means I have been spending about $60 a month at starbucks every month!!!" SO her daily expenses finally caught up with her nad she stopped her starbucks addiction! That was what it was like when she looked at me with that realization of how much time she does spend texting!! But then again, she has this text message shorthand thing down, she can write a paragraph in about 12 shorthand "words"!

I don't know, I don't particularly ask! Probably would scare me to know! She's a good kid tho, so I am not worried. I just have a huge problem in cutting the apron strings! I haven't been able to do it in 29 years, I hope I can at least loosen them in the next 29!

Yeah, no matter what you type you get the same "charge". And she does often with me the K or Yea. TO me - a waste! At least say something else to "get your moneys worth"!