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> For 24 hours/day, 7 days/wk, 4 weeks/mo, 3 months straight? The comment above reached a figure of 700 per day per person. For my teen self, that's about two
by r3bl 7y ago
> For 24 hours/day, 7 days/wk, 4 weeks/mo, 3 months straight?
The comment above reached a figure of 700 per day per person. For my teen self, that's about two or three hours of conversation per day. It's certainly sustainable for months. Hell, I was known as the outlier in my teen circles because I liked to send longer messages (actually combining full sentences into one message) from time to time.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe comment I'm reading states 700/hr, up to 1000/hr. Not day. That may not be what its author intended, but it's what they wrote. Twice.
- zaroth 7y agor3bl is correct. In the context of incredulity over someone sending 700 texts per day, my point was that I’m sure there are many users who send over 700 texts in a single an hour. Nowhere did I say that rate would be sustained for 24 consecutive hours. It is the ultimate in moving goalposts to take my response to a claim of 700/day being insane, to recast the debate as if it were over sending 17,000 texts per day.
- dredmorbius 7y agoPew's 2012 estimate, the most recent available, is 167 mean, 60 median, texts/day for teens. Fewer than 20% send more than 200 texts/day. Again, the likelihood that "many" exceed 700/day, let alone 700/hr, absent some bulk multicasting method, is unsupported by plausibility or data. https://www.pewinternet.org/2012/03/19/what-teens-do-with-their-phones/ https://www.pewinternet.org/2012/03/19/what-teens-do-with-th...
- zaroth 7y ago2012? Phhffaw. Dude, do you even text? </s> But when did I ever say many?!
- dredmorbius 7y agoRereading your initial comment, that's strongly implied. I think this horse is now dead, and or has come to enjoy the beating.