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Texting Injures your Thumbs and Fingers |
axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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Mobile text messaging has become so popular in Britain that millions of users suffer injuries to their thumbs and fingers.
More than 93.5 million text messages are sent every day and this has lead to an exponential growth in the number of people with repetitive strain injury.
Thirty-eight per cent more people suffer from sore wrists and thumbs because of text messaging than five years ago; 3.8 million people complain of text-related injuries a year, according to a survey for Virgin Mobile released yesterday.
The survey found the text messaging phenomenon shows no sign of slowing. More than 12 per cent of Britons admit to sending 20 text messages a day; 10 per cent confess to sending as many as 100 texts a day.
While psychologists say communication is important, there is a danger that tools like text messaging and email is making people uncomfortable with face-to-face conversations. There is concern some people can become addicted to excessive text messaging.
Last year a Scot, Craig Crosbi, was crowned the world's fastest text messenger for taking 48 seconds to type out the message: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."
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p900 lover
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Its true, cos at the end of a long day if im sending another text my thumb does start to hurt. but then i think its up 2 the person to realise then they r sending too many text.
BTW axxxr why are you up so late/early? |
axxxr
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Its alright now coz we are young are fingers and muscles can take the strain but as we age and grow older i can see this developing into something more significant...arthiritis ect,worrying though!
I could ask you the same question,...why up so late then?
I'm finishing off a work project...have to get it done.
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p900 lover
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That is true, when people get older.
Im also up trying to finsh of this business coursework that due in today. been doing it from about 11 now |
deluded
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Moderation is the key to everything i guess. But think about it this way, all this texting may actually give you stronger thumbs, so you don't notice the strain. It's like lifting weights isn't it? If you keep doing the same weights, you actually find it easier subsequently.
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mcrosser
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now, if mobile manufacturers would come up with a material that lessens the strain when buttons are pushed, that could help in the problem right? yeah.. it is late, well for me it's really early, 1:10 am at my side of the world.
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vrl29
Joined: Dec 25, 2004
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here in our country text messaging has been the rage since 2001, and people have been very hooked into it that the country became the "text capital of the world"...
as for texting-related injuries, i still have to encounter one here... as most people in our country are text-proficient... 
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private_ryan
Joined: Nov 28, 2005
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how i wish that someday there will be a voice/speech recognition typing feature in mobile phones to get rid of sore wrists and thumbs.
i hate to type long text messages anyway.
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JK
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You should see the amount of mxit addicts we have here...
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Luke-the-magic-man
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lol I can't text for sh*t, so when I was like 14/15 I bought myself a touch screen phone then p800, then p900 and then p910i, and as a result my fingers are fine as I never used the keypads lol
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haynesycop
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Nice point there luke so the moral of the story is, make p series phones and pda/touchscreen phones cheeper so we all have nice unscathed fingers and thumbs.
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Rocky B.
Joined: Jan 15, 2005
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From: Leicester, England
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Finishing work project = posting to esato?
And tbh, this news doesn't suprise me in the least. Any repetitive wrist or thumb movement is going to cause problems, same as anything else.
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