A California teenager now serves as a poster child for unlimited texting by sending 14,528 texts in a month.

Whether that poster is lauding the massive savings brought on by having an unlimited texting plan or warning parents that their children may develop a text addiction due to the unfettered, glorious freedom of an unlimited texting plan is subjective.

The 13-year-old girl managed to text herself silly by sending an average 484 text messages per day.  This breaks down to about 30 messages an hour, assuming she slept for 8 hours (unknown, and perhaps a bad assumption).  What’s not listed is how many phone calls she made, and how many texts might have been avoided by (a) making a phone call or (b) going over to a friend’s house to have an in-person conversation.

Without an unlimited plan her texting habit would have cost Dad around $3000.  As it is, the 440-page bill was enough to make the logging industry look good by comparison, and has led her parents to limit her texting after dinner.

On the plus side, her new texting restrictions will prevent this one teenager from unduly influencing the results of American Idol.  No word on whether her efforts were instrumental on keeping Sanjaya in the running for so long, but we have our suspicions.

In any case, we award this sore-fingered teen a Fantasy T-Wearer award with the “World’s Best TXT MSSNGER” t-shirt, at left.

We were going to award her a mug, but that might interfere with her texting.