I’m a texter.

It’s true.

When I was in college, I found the ease and convenience that comes with text messaging and I have been hooked ever since.

I text my friends, my co-workers and really anyone I feel has access to their phone. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s my favorite means of communication, but it might just be one of my most used.

That said, I’m nowhere near the Wyoming 13-year-old who racked up a $4,756.25 phone bill after she sent more than 10,000 text messages and received another 9,874 messages.

The Christoffersen family originally got their daughter, Dena, a cell phone to keep in touch. They did not get a texting plan for the phone, but they didn’t realize she still could text, even without them having a plan.

And not having a plan didn’t stop Dena.

According to the report on CNN.com, she had about 700 text messages a day.

The worst part?

This middle-schooler wasn’t texting while at home — she was sending and receiving all those nuggets of telecommunication goodness while in school.

While this is kind of shocking, I remembered a conversation I had with some of the girls in my youth group a couple of months ago.

They told me they routinely text while at school, in fact, they regularly rack up more than 10,000 texts a month.

And, let me tell you, they have access to my cell phone number – I don’t think they’re making that up. They are the ones who text you in art class to tell you they’re nervous about their test in math class, text you in math class to let you know that the test wasn’t that bad and then text you at lunch just to say hi.

They, at least, have unlimited texting plans.

That just boggles my mind.

When I was in school, you would be dead if you were caught with a cell phone in school. I mean, it took a pretty rebellious kid to keep his cell phone, turned off, in his book bag. Now, it seems like the kids have no qualm whatsoever in breaking out cell phones every other second.

Anyway, back to the super-texter in Wyoming, thankfully, her dad had a pretty foolproof way of handling the problem.

He took a hammer and beat the phone into the bits.

And, thankfully, his little girl has learned a lesson.

“When your parents tell you not to do something, don’t do it,” she said.

Indeed.