<p>Hi! I'm leaving for college soon; I don't have texting, but I really want to get it for college.
I don't know how many texts to get...
How many texts do you send/receive in a month? What do you use texts for? Who do you text? Is unlimited worth paying the $$?
Please let me know!</p>
<p>I text an average amount. I counted my inbox and sent box, compared dates, and I’d say I send/receive about 300 texts a month. We have a family plan with unlimited texting (and I’m sure my sister sends several thousand a month), and only text so much because I don’t have to worry about it. </p>
<p>I generally text people when I’m not sure if they’re in class, or if they’re busy somewhere where they wouldn’t want to take a call.</p>
<p>When I didn’t have texting and it cost me ten cents per text, I sent 10-12 texts a month. When I went to college my mom added unlimited texting to our plan so that we could text each other, and now I send between 1000 and 1500, according to her. It is probably so much because nobody I know will use the phone these days unless it’s an emergency, otherwise I’d guess it would be more around 500. My sister sends more like 5000 and I have no idea how she has time to do anything else.</p>
<p>I text my mom, my sister, my cousin, boyfriend, friends, anybody, really. I think I probably text my mom the most. Everyone else I see often enough that we don’t need to have many conversations with the phone.</p>
<p>For me, unlimited texting is worth paying for. I begged my mom to let me give her money every month to add unlimited since she didn’t want to pay for it and she wouldn’t budge, so it’s not even just that mommy’s paying. It’s just such a relief to not have to tell everyone I exchange numbers with, “and oh, I can’t really text.” Weirdly there are some people who will just never contact you if they have to call.</p>
<p>Unlimited is definitely worth it for the reason already stated: very few people talk on the phone anymore. I would guess I send probably 1000 per month…I have no idea how many I receive.</p>
<p>I send 40 per month; any conversation I have occurs by phone or by email or by person. </p>
<p>Someone correct me if I am wrong, but once you get to like 250+ texts per month, it generally involves some sort of communication beyond planning to meet up and stuff like that. It’s up to you whether you want to have those sorts of conversations by text or by other medium.</p>
<p>^Well, as I said I send/receive about 300 a month, and I don’t have any real conversations over text.</p>
<p>300 would involve me only sending about 5 a day, so it adds up really quickly.</p>
<p>I text kind of a lot, I don’t know numbers of how many texts I send or anything like that, since I have unlimited. For me, it’s nice, it’s really easy to coordinate plans and stay in touch. If you’re a person who doesn’t normally text ever, you might not find it as useful, since I’m sure you must prefer other ways of making plans, etc.</p>
<p>I have real conversations occasionally over text, but I don’t always get much choice in the matter. Friends text me to just to “chat” who never, ever called unless strictly necessary before I got unlimited texting. My mom and my boyfriend are the only ones who will actually call me just to talk, and maybe my sister. I could choose to call instead of reciprocating but I find most of my friends are much more reliable about responding to texts than answering their phone or returning calls. My best friend will literally never answer her phone to anyone but her mom or her boyfriend. Even if she knows we have plans to go to the movies in an hour and she doesn’t know what time to pick me up, even if it’s an emergency, she will not answer her phone. She wasn’t always like that, but she’s been this way for a while now.</p>
<p>not worth it imo</p>
<p>Totally going to vary from person to person. </p>
<p>I think texting conversations are ridiculous, and I don’t really them with my friends. I have the 250 texts/month, and that’s how much I use, roughly. My texts consists of simple questions from friends, reminders, funny pictures, things like that. Nothing of real substance, and I could easily survive without being inconvenienced without texting. </p>
<p>Don’t start out with unlimited. Get like, 500 and see where you go from there. You might be one of the people who does text a lot, but it’s stupid to spend the money on it when you’ve never even texted before. You should be able to change your plan sometime early within the billing period if you go over that, too. Easier to go up than down, too.</p>
<p>D started out with a 2000 texts per month on our plan. Bad idea. I just recently went into Verizon when her texts exceeded 2000 and they backdated the account to the next level of 5000 per month. Unlimited texting is probably not needed. I would get a plan of around 1500-2000 per month to start,keep a close eye online of usage and adjust your limits based on that. In high school she never came close to the number of texts she now does in college.</p>
<p>Part of the reason we have unlimited is because me, my mom, and my sister all share the same texts and minutes. If it were just me, if I could get a 1000-2000 plan I probably wouldn’t need to pay unlimited, but between the three of us I think we likely exceed 6000 a month.</p>
<p>It depends on what plan you have.</p>
<p>My network (ATT) has something where the lowest level under unlimited is 500 a month. Then again, unlimited under att isn’t that expensive)
Seeing as how I send & receive anywhere between 1000-2000 a month, I need unlimited on my plan.</p>