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Cell Phone Tips: How To Avoid the Dangers Of Text Messaging

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Some resorts and spas offers their customers special therapy to relieve pain and discomfort caused by the overuse of text messaging. What some doctors called TMI, or text messaging injury, continues to grow at an alarming rate. But injury resulting from the use of thumbs and fingers to tap out hundreds of messages a day on a smart phone is not the only potential danger of texting. Just as some people talk on a cell phone while driving, others text message, or text, while driving. Mental Health professionals warn of possible addiction to texting, in addiction to other psychological problems, such as social withdrawal and the practice of kids being bullied via text messages.

Some people argue that the dangers of texting have been overstated and hyped in the media. They claim that texting is just like any other technology or product and should be used in moderation and with common sense. Any tool that increases communication and productivity likely will be overused by some, and texting is no more dangerous than writing postcards. But how can people cope with potential dangers of texting? Should text messaging been band?What are the right and wrong answers?  Some States are even trying to put laws in place to prevent texting while driving.  Some researchers predicted that texting in children slows down their brain.  The effects may not show now but it will show later on their life.  There is about 0.03 per cent of radiation transmitted from cell phones, and that is scary.  Do it make you decide to leave cell phones in stores and never buy them again?  Of course not.  What are your opinion on texting?  Do you think doctors and researchers know more about this subject then what they leading on?

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RNMSN 11 months ago

hey there jessicab! I caught sight of your avatar and had to read...

anyone named jessicab wins my heart instantly

wonderful write up on the dangers and potentially hidden dangers of texting!!! course I cant text and drive cue I cant walk and chew gum at the same time :) but I admit to texting while hubby drives :)

our daughter will finally call and say "Dude, what were you trying to say Mom cause you cannot text!"

hey! what can I say?

I had to have my dtr and my dtr in law help with my cell phones like ALL the time!!

good read...keep writing!!!

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