My daughter's iphone is receiving copies of text messages I am sending from my iphone 4S to one of my friends.

I have a new 4S. So does my friend, Mike. My daughter has the original iPhone 4. All 3 of us are running 5.0.1. Whenever I send an "imessage" to Mike or he sends one to me, a duplicate of our texts is being broadcast on my daughter's phone.
Her phone is under my shared plan. His is not.
This only happens for texts sent between Mike and I. It doesn't happen to any other contacts that I have or he has.
I have never used group messaging and frankly, don't know how to set up the groups. I saw the feature group messaging in setup and all three of us did a test by shutting it off, but it still replicated our texts onto her phone.
What could be causing this?

It's called iMessage, new in iOS 5.0...these messages are going as iMessages, and as designed, they appear on all of your iOS devices(your Apple ID on your daughter's phone). Either turn iMessage off on your daughter's phone or get her her own Apple ID & wipe her phone & then setup it up again using her own Apple ID. Your daughter having her own Apple ID is recommended if you want to fully take advantage of iCloud, FaceTime, iMessage, etc. She can still use your iTunes account.

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