Girl Sends Nearly 25 Thousand Texts in One Month

Girl Sends Nearly 25 Thousand Texts in One Month

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By Danielle Leigh

21-thousand text messages in one month, that's the all-time record for the 14-year-old we introduced you to on Tuesday.

If you found that hard to believe, you may want to sit down for this.

I found one girl who topped that. She sent nearly 25 thousand. Again, we're talking about just one month.

"24, 807; 24, 310," reads Angie Goodwin, Kylie's mom.

At first, Angie Goodwin couldn't believe how much her 13-year-old daughter texts.

"I had to call Edge Wireless because I thought it was wrong. They said no that is right," says Angie.

Then the months of hard to believe bills kept piling up.

"19, 234, that was a slow month, 23,044; 20, 682;" reads Angie.

In fact, Kylie texts so much she didn't even stop for our interview.

It gets better, this phone is only one month old and its already breaking.

"I have to tape them because they'll fall off and they'll stop working. All of my buttons are taped because they keep falling off," says Kylie Goodwin.

Not surprising, considering Kylie's all time high is just under 25 thousand texts in a month.

So tell me how do you do it how do you manage to rack up over 24 thousand text messages in one month?

"I don't know. I didn't know it was that many. I just texted all the time," says Kylie.

What are you texting about?

"How we are, just anything. I tell my friends everything," says Kylie.

Like Chalayne Hennings, the girl I introduced you to Tuesday, Kylie's habit has gotten her into some trouble.

"I try to hide it, and sometimes I hit the volume button and it will go off in class and they take it away from me or they catch me or see me or something," says Kylie.

"I think one month we had about a 400 dollar overage in just texting," says Angie.

Now Kylie has unlimited texting, and it only costs her mom about 15 dollars a month, but that only has Kylie texting more.

"She doesn't really like to help out around the house anymore because she can't because every two seconds her phone goes off," says Angie. "It's not like it's every mother's dream to have a daughter that texts as much as she does, but she still gets good grades."

"I thought everybody else did it too," says Kylie.

This texting craze may just be here to stay.

Analysts predict cell phone users will send a total of 301 billion texts by the end of this year in the US alone. That's up over 100 billion from last year.

We want to know what you think about all of this. Is 25 thousand texts a month too much or just innocent fun?
Email us your thoughts at yourturn@kidk.com.
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