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My teenage niece and her friends are constantly on Facebook. As well as constantly texting each other (We're talking literally 4-5000 texts a month here). Coll
by waterlesscloud 15y ago
My teenage niece and her friends are constantly on Facebook. As well as constantly texting each other (We're talking literally 4-5000 texts a month here).
College is a weird out-of-band gap in most people's social lives, and it's not really any meaningful indication of how they will live post-college.
- w1ntermute 15y ago> As well as constantly texting each other (We're talking literally 4-5000 texts a month here). Using the number of text messages sent/received per month often vastly distorts the picture. When you've got an unlimited texting plan, many of the texts you send are just "yes", "no", "lol", or ":)".
- waterlesscloud 15y agoIf you're averaging 150 texts per day, does it matter how short they are?
- sp332 15y ago150 is not that much. Think of each text as a sentence in a conversation. So talking to 5 people per day, with only 30 sentences per convo, will put you at 150. Some days (not most days) I'm well over 100 and it never seems like an insane amount.
- dm8 15y agoA professor of mine once told me that their phone bill boomeranged. When he investigated they were shocked to find that their teenage daughter had sent 3700 text in the month she got iPhone. When he asked her to stop, she started using group messaging tools like FB messenger.
- asto 15y agoBoomerang(v.): Return to the originator, often with negative consequences. Perhaps you meant "spiked"?
- dm8 14y agoMy bad, I have no idea why I used "boomranged". It should've been spiked as you've suggested.
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- roel_v 15y agoWhat does 'boomeranged' mean? Went away far, then turned back and hit him in the face?