On slashdot.org, someone wrote about a girl high school girl who racked up a text messaging bill of over $1,100 in one month for having used almost 7,000 text messages. Although this is the most extreme case I've ever heard of, so many kids have the problems of going over their monthly allowance of text messages. Personally, I've never used too many minutes on my cell phone, but i have used too many text messages. Many people use unlimited text messaging, and people like this definately should.
The comments on this blog were mostly about parenting and how these days parents can't discipline their children without being accused of abuse, so not allowing kids to text message would probably be seen as too harsh in the eyes of some people. It's hard for me to comment on parenting, but something like this situation should definately be punished in some way.
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I found your post very interesting. My opinion on the issue regarding children getting punished for racking up hefty text messaging bills depends on whether or not limits were set by the parents on the number of text messages children were allowed. If there were limits than I think the children should be punished by haveing their cellphones taken away. However, if there were no limits than the child should not recieve punishment.
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