Teenager Sends 300,000 Text Messages In A Month

Unbelievable.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento County teenager is bragging about a big accomplishment.
She logged more than 300,000 text messages in one month.
“My friends said, ‘Text your little thumbs off’,” Crystal Wiski said.
“Thank God for free texting,” added her mother, Jacki Wiski.
Jacki Wiski said she just bought the iPhone for her daughter a month ago.
“I get cramps,” Crystal Wiski said of her habit.
Needless to say, it didn’t take long for her to get used to it.
Her mother is amazed by the number of texts.
“Oh my God, that’s unbelievable,” Jacki Wiski said. “She must text while she’s sleeping.”

When I say “unbelievable” I mean it. I don’t believe it.
A 30-day month has 720 hours. 720 hours has 43,200 minuets. Which has 2,592,000 seconds. Divide that by 300,000 text messages and you get one text message every 8.64 seconds. That’s the pace she’d have to maintain 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a month.
If we assume she sleeps at least 8 hours a day (and most teenagers sleep more, no?) we’re at a text message every 5.76 seconds every waking hour for 30 straight days.
I just don’t think that’s possible. Either she’s receiving a whole lot more texts than she’s sending, or this story is bogus.

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  • http://Array Tony B

    Am I dating this girl?

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    As Hawk points out, multiple sendees is counted as multiple texts. So if you send the same message to 30 people, it’s thirty texts. And assuming all of them respond, you could log 60 texts in just a few seconds.

    Add in filler texts like “LOL”, or “Yea”, that a lot of teens send, and it becomes a lot more believable.

  • http://sonofasillyperson.blogspot.com/ sonofasillyperson

    Here’s the really unbelievable part of the story:

    “Thank God for free texting,” added her mother, Jacki Wiski.

    This mother had no clue how ridiculous her child’s texting habit had become, and her only concern upon hearing about it was “Well, at least it’s not going to cost me extra.” Pitiful.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

    I agree. It may be possible. Even if they know how to form one, most teenagers don’t text in complete sentences.
    OMG
    SWDYT
    LMK
    SYT
    Plus, some can type 160 character texts in 41 seconds

  • Paul

    When I got a new phone number, I sent the same text message to everyone in my address book letting them know about it. It counted as over 60 text messages sent, and then when 40 of them responded within an hour, I racked up 100 text messages in less than an hour. :)

  • Hawk

    They are probably counting if you text to multiple people as seperate texts. Or they are lying. Kind of like Wilt’s claim of sleeping with 10,000 women.

  • dragon poker

    My thumb get tired just thinking about it.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Wow. The continuing downfall of the American mind. Abbreviated gossip — jaysoos chreesto.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    OMG WTTFBBQ?!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I suppose.

    I could probably set my Twitter account to send all the “tweets” to my phone and log up a big number too.

    Pretty inane.

  • MEGAN

    Crystal Wiski is the hottest most awesome girl….ever. I was all 300,000 of those texts. Every 5.76 seconds. SUCK IT.

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