2 Many Txt Msgs Bad 4 Yr Health, Italian Docs Say

[Christina]

ROME (Reuters) - Excessive text messaging may be bad for you, or at least for your fingers.

That's what some Italian doctors think. They are telling people, particularly the young, that furious typing on mobile phones could lead to acute tendonitis.

Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Il Messaggero dedicated about half a page each to the problem Monday. A 13-year-old girl in the northern Italian city of Savona needed treatment from an orthopedic specialist after typing at least 100 short message services (SMSs) a day.

She was prescribed anti-inflammatory medicine and ordered to rest her hands.

According to a recent study conducted for children's rights group Telefono Azzurro, some 37 percent of Italian children are "cell phone addicts." Irritability and mood swings were other symptoms linked to very frequent cell phone use among the young.

The message is clear: MayB U shd stop B4 its 2 L8.

SOURCE (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20050124/od_nm/odd_italy_sms_dc)

I found this one interesting and funny! So true, yet everything we do now in regards to technology is "BAD? for our health. :lol: I don't suppose she just had a regular cellphone? Then of course the text messaging (100's per day) would definitely take a toll on your hands/fingers....geez!

[the_pm]

or, get on ur bike and go C ur friends n real life.

[Christina]

Text Messaging is crazy here in SF....every kid has some type of messaging phone or whatever. My now just turned 12 yr old cousin has her first cell phone now (been 6 months). When I was 12/13 I got a pager. GEEZ.

[the_pm]

When I was in high school, you were suspended if you were caught with a pager. I never got caught ;) I had a pager when I was 16, pretty hot stuff there!

[Christina]

Hm...I was always at the pay phone by the principals office @lunch during my freshman year :lol: those were the days...decoding messages sent to me in #'s.......

Ha...I do not miss High School nor the people I graduated with. It was a very un diverse school my parents made me go to!!! UGH! :lol: Either we move to a nice house (I didn't have my own room or a room for that matter until I was 12! and started 7th grade! The living room was my room.) Or we stay around the block from 8 mile rd.

My first day of school....I wondered where all the black people were :shock: Call me crazy but I came from a school that was 75-80% black!! There was 1 1/2 black people total in the entire school......and the kids there were ignorant the day I got there and the day I left. Quite sheltered too. Most have never even been out of a 5 mile radius of the small city.

*rambling once again....back to work*

[vito]

When I was in high school (in the olden days), we didn't have pagers, we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have PDAs.

We had phone numbers of our friends. That was it. And we were lucky if we could get our friends' parents to pass the phone over to them when we called.

[*...Man, I feel sooooo old...*/]

Vito

[Christina]

When I was in high school (in the olden days), we didn't have pagers, we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have PDAs.

We had phone numbers of our friends. That was it. And we were lucky if we could get our friends' parents to pass the phone over to them when we called.

[*...Man, I feel sooooo old...*/]

Vito

I did TONS of note passing too (not to parents though?) :lol:

You're as old as you feel ;)

[vito]

You're as old as you feel ;)You're right. But when I read about how things go nowadays, I can't help but feel like a dinosaur.

On the other hand, when I watch Saturday Night Fever or Grease on TV, I feel like a kid again!!! :banana:

Vito

[Pauly]

OT/ I wish i could afford to send 100 texts per day, everyday :lol: Mobile phones aren't for me. I had one, and I will get another, but I dislike people who don't need my number having it, it gets me annoyed, especially when they text or call you offering you stuff.

[Jamie]

E-Mail, E-Mail, E-Mail! :lol: Certainly needs to replace text messaging, but then we have everyone jumping down our throats about Repetitive Strain Injury!

I have a mobile phone (or cellphone for the you Americans), but, I hardly ever use it for what it is meant to be used for. Seriously, it is a quite new phone (2 or 3 months) and I have not once had any credit on it (it is pay as you go), I have never sent a text message or phoned anybody. I simply let them text me, I then jump on the 'net and e-mail them. The only thing I use the phone for is to listen to some quality songs on the MP3 Player that it has built in or to distract me from work by playing on the soccer or wake boarding game. :)

[Christina]

hmm...I have an Sidekick 2. I can email, instant message on aol or yahoo...play games and browse the web and all that other normal pda junk. Also has a decent camera built in. Plus, I like that it has a speakerphone ability ;)

The way I see it, mobile phones are going to go the PDA route....

[Corey Bryant]

I have one of those Nokia 6820 (http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/6820) - which helps. Good thing - last month I received 2,000 text messages and sent out 500. And y'all just thought I spent all my time in the forums! LOL

In high school - I did have a cell phone. But to call my house, was long distance - even from the driveway. But then again, in my home town, you could just dial 4 digits to reach your neighbor. I did hear things changed somewhat because they added a new prefix finally.