How many texts do you send per month?

[flopsy]

Brought to you by this article:

www.money.cnn.com/2012/11/13/technology/mobile/text-messaging-decline/index.html?iid=HP_River

Basically, the average number of texts sent per month fell for the first time in U.S. history. (ETA: This is thought to be due to other modes of messaging allowing customers to avoid texting charges.)

I wasn't excessively surprised by the fact that text messaging fell.

However, I was MAJORLY surprised by this sentence:

U.S. cell phone customers sent an average of about 675 messages per month in the third quarter, down from around 700 per month in the prior quarter.



675 texts per month??? SENT?

I sent 29 in October. Just counted one by one on my phone.

Apparently I'm a loser.

ETA: I think I should also add that, when my husband and I met 5 years ago, he didn't even have text messaging yet. Yep, you read that right. I loved it, actually. It forced us to talk on the phone. We hardly ever text, even now. He probably sends about what I do.

[gt7301b]

I have no idea, most of mine are sent via iMessage so they don't show up on my cell phone bill.

[Velvetshady]

That 0-200 range is pretty damn huge. I'm the zero. If you take the 7 years Ive had my current phone, I'd say I average 3 texts per year.

[flopsy]

Nov 13, 2012 19:00:46 GMT -5 gt7301b said:

I have no idea, most of mine are sent via iMessage so they don't show up on my cell phone bill.

The article actually cited stuff like this as the reason for the drop - other modes of messaging are allowing customers to start bypassing texts.

[M]

Zero. I had Verizon disable it on my phone. Though I have google chat on my phone so.... 8-D

[Deleted]

I send on average over 800 a month. There have been periods when I've sent over 2500 in a single month.

As of right now I'm at 370.

[Deleted]

Text messages might fall because of iMessaging, right? I am pretty sure that every person I "text" has an iPhone so unless there is some issue with the iMessage going through (which was happening a lot in the past few months), my "texts" are iMessages. I also send a lot of emails from my phone.

This month I sent 134 texts (real texts) because of the storm -- iMessaging didn't work at all. From June through October, I was consistently between 60-70 texts. My husband is on a share plan with me and he sends around 130 a month (more of his friends have non-iPhones, so they are sent real texts).

I use an average of 20 minutes of voice a month, and my husband uses 10. We really make the most of our unlimited voice and texting!

[flopsy]

Nov 13, 2012 19:04:13 GMT -5 @akuzreve said:

Uh...

Last month, I had 4800 sent texts, 4900 received, and 150 international texts.

Yeah.

Minus the international texts (I was in D.C.), this is normal for me.

You must be so popular. I feel like such a loser.

[Susie]

oh wow. I think I send + receive a total of like 10 per month.

[zacksbride]

probably about 500/month. but this is primarily for work. text messaging is the primary form of communication between attendings and residents at the hospital that i am a faculty at. i get texts all day long from residents.

far fewer of my texts are for personal reasons.

[marylou]

28 this month for me.
195 for DH. Wtf, who is he texting?

[fuddyduddy]

I don't think 675 texts/month is excessive. Assuming the month has 30 days, it works out to 22.5 texts per day. That's probably one or two short conversations.

[M]

Nov 13, 2012 19:05:27 GMT -5 v said:

I use an average of 20 minutes of voice a month, and my husband uses 10. We really make the most of our unlimited voice and texting!

I use about the same . I avoid making phone calls unless absolutely necessary. I prefer emails...even tell my clients that I answer emails faster lol. Luckily a lot of them are overseas and don't want to call anyways. Text is disabled on my phone so the only thing I use my $120/mo phone (2 lines) for is about 1gb of the unlimited data. H streams music off slacker radio so we get our money worth haha.

[flopsy]

Nov 13, 2012 19:12:04 GMT -5 @akuzreve said:

Nov 13, 2012 19:05:47 GMT -5 @flopsy said:

You must be so popular. I feel like such a loser.

Not at all. We tend to send texts after every sentence so it's multiple texts. So rather than grouping the message in one text, it'll be like 4 texts at once. Makes sense?

Yeah, I guess I didn't include in my count texts that may have automatically split after 160. So maybe 29 becomes, like, 35.

Still. lol.

If you divide yours by 4 you still only get down to 1200/month!

[ssmjlm]

This thread is fitting bc I just has to up my texts from 250.

I mostly text my sister and mom. One doesn't have Verizon and neither have iPhones.

[Kore]

Nov 13, 2012 19:00:46 GMT -5 gt7301b said:

I have no idea, most of mine are sent via iMessage so they don't show up on my cell phone bill.

Same here. Almost everyone we know has an iPhone, so I have no idea. I send a LOT, though.

[ijack]

I've only sent 169 so far this cycle, and I think I text 2 people who don't have iPhones.

[Kore]

Looking at voice, I used a whopping 4 minutes to people other than my H (we had 22 mins). I hate talking on the phone.

[smiley]

I had to pull up my bill to look...

Last month I used 670 text / picture / video messages
Last month DH used 405 text / picture / video messages

I am not sure how that compares to previous months but that sounds about average for us.

[dexteroni]

Nov 13, 2012 19:21:43 GMT -5 Kore said:

Nov 13, 2012 19:00:46 GMT -5 gt7301b said:

I have no idea, most of mine are sent via iMessage so they don't show up on my cell phone bill.

Same here. Almost everyone we know has an iPhone, so I have no idea. I send a LOT, though.

Same here too. My sister and I basically text each other every thought that pops into our heads; I have no idea how many we send. And one of my two BFFs isn't far behind. My other BFF doesn't have an iPhone but I use the textfree app to text with her. It's kind of a pain to use but she doesn't text that much.

[sillygoosegirl]

I have to learn how again every time I send one. 5 texts would be a really big month for me, most of the time I send 0. I prefer email.

[agnes]

Last month I had 437. H had 1729. And my mom had 1233.

We didn't even use up 400 minutes. However, we did all use a lot of data. That's why we have an unlimited plan.

[Kore]

Nov 13, 2012 19:11:03 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Thanks to a few friends (y'all know who you are, lol) I typically wake up to around 40 each morning, lol. Those are all iMessages though so don't "count".

Probably a couple hundred real texts (DH has an Android).

xoxo. I'm glad you sleep with your ringer off :-p

[hippygirl]

Last month was over 5,000. Thankful for mobile to mobile.

[morningmania]

We have unlimited Texting, but I only use about 500 a month.

I really prefer texting while I am at work when it is family or personal stuff, so people are not listening to my conversations. I text my daughters and DH a lot.

[regina22]

Maybe ten? I hate texting. I was out of college when it became big, and I never learned how to type quickly with my thumbs. I only use it if I'm meeting up with someone, if if it's my friend that doesn't work a desk job. Otherwise I'm all email for my communications.

I was never the kind of person to spend all night talking on the phone with someone, so maybe it's the same personality trait? I'm introverted so I just can't fathom communicating with someone that much. My job is very interactive, so all I want to do when I get home is shut off from the rest of the world.

[wanderlustfoodie]

Maybe 15 tops? I hate texting.

[cajunmom]

I sent about 2200 last month. My total count (sent and received) was about 4100.

[aspentosh]

I pay for 200 texts per month and barely use half (both sending and receiving).

[emilyinchile]

Actual texts probably like 5 a month.

I send a ton of messages through WhatsApp, but I'm pretty sure I'm not at almost 5000 a month there either!