http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6411495.stm The rise of technology addiction The Blackberry mobile device allows users to send e-mails The seemingly exponential growth of portable technology has sparked fears that people are becoming addicted or swamped by gadgets and their uses. One major consequence of this phenomenon is that the line between work and private life is much more
Read more →From Sylvie: http://www.001.be.cx/ Paediatricians warn against mobile phones Tue 13/03/07 – A group of Flemish paediatricians has started a campaign to stop children under 16 years of age from using mobile phones. That’s according to a report by the daily Het Laatste Nieuws. The doctors will act as a sort of pressure group under the
Read more →From Sarah Dacre: http://prensa.ugr.es/prensa/research/verNota/prensa.php?nota=434 25/02/2007 Four in ten young adults are mobile-phone addicts, a behaviour that can cause severe psychological disorders – Almost half Spaniards between 18 and 25 spend more than four hours a day hooked on their mobile phones while talking, sending text messages or giving missed calls. – The author of this
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=578 From Robert Reidlinger: A recent poll suggests widespread cell phone use is a social malady. One scientist think it”™s a lot worse than that By RUSS FRANCIS © Copyright 2006 Monday Magazine http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=117&cat=23&id=758746&more= Hazard? Invisible Oct 26 2006 One in 10 Canadians would rather lose their
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #571: Australian survey measures national mobile addiction NOTE: I have added a new category to this web log – Cell phone addiction At the Sept 2004 International Conference on Mobile Communications and Health: Medical, Biological and Social Problems, held in Moscow, I asked Yuri Grigoriev about addiction
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