Although texting is a convenient and cheap method of staying in touch with your friend, it can also bring problems. In 2005 a British teenager become the firth person in the world to receive treatment for an addiction to text messaing in one year, the nineteen-year-old spent about €4,500 on text. (He was sending about 700 text a week) He was also addicted to e-mail, and sent 8,000 messages in one month form his computer at work. The treatment is working well, however, and he now spends on more than €10 a week on text.