Comment good luck (Score 1) 129
You're in a bad situation where you carrier is billing you, and you have to pay. You don't get to question the data.
That said... use the Android data limits, have it warn you at a certain level, and turn off data when you reach your limit.
Uninstall Facebook, their app is disgusting in the way it consumes data. Auto-playing videos, messaging app on all the time in the background, refreshing itself with no option to disable it. It was by far and above the worst offending app, even with most options disabled, that I've ever had installed on my phone.
A lot of apps have options like "Only download big files over wifi" turn as many of those on as possible. Most google apps have features like that, like Picasa can be set to only backup while in wifi. Do everything you can over wifi.
One thing I'd like android to do more of is give more options for wifi usage. It seems to treat all open wifi the same, which is certainly not the case now that a lot of wifi requires login. I don't want my phone just using my work wifi willy nilly for example.
As far as Apple goes... if you've got an iPhone, you clearly don't value money anyway, so your question is moot in those cases.