Stop texting that text message, lest your brain become ill
If a text message is magically sent from a forest with no one in it to another forest with no one in it, did it really happen?
So it goes that “compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness.” That is, if the American Journal of Psychiatry has anything to say about it.
We then learn that “86 per cent of Internet addicts have some other form of mental illness, but that unless a therapist is looking for it, Internet addiction is likely to be missed.”
So, I get it. Communicating online is fun, ensnaring, even “addictive” in the non-psychiatric use of the term. You can certainly overdo it if you don’t take some care, such as with watching television, eating, reading books, power bowling, lawn darts, etc. etc.
But “brain illness”? Really? Seriously?
Engadget at the least says “we’re not surprised one iota.” However, Duncan Riley at TechCrunch says that “Block’s definition is rather broad, but taken on face value would probably mean that most working in the Valley have a mental disorder.”
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March 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
While reading this article, and I was struck that it probably was relevant to a social networking site, HumanBook, which has over 250 million profiles of people, including you, your friends, classmates and relatives.
The HumanBook is a mutually managed people directory. People list their own real-life connections, and other connections they have awareness of, to create a lifelong network. The network houses the connections, and then the collaboratively updated address book nurtures them, assuring that they need never be lost. HumanBook is the tool that will allow you to cherish and sustain all of the connections of your whole life. So if you’re interested, go to http://www.HumanBook.com and find your profile today!
March 21st, 2008 at 3:24 am
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