Wednesday, March 26, 2008

STEP AWAY FROM THE BLACKBERRY


A very famous conservative professor and former White House lawyer during the Reagan and Bush I administrations endorsed Obama.Not surprisingly, he defends his endorsement impressively clearly articulating Obama's cross-appeal.
There’s a new kind of addiction out there, to which many of us are currently vulnerable, and from which some of us may be suffering right this moment:
According to one Dr. Jerald Block, writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, excessive e-mailing and text messaging could be a form of mental illness.


news.com.au:
The article, by Dr Jerald Block, said there were four symptoms: suffering from feelings of withdrawal when a computer cannot be accessed; an increased need for better equipment; need for more time to use it; and experiencing the negative repercussions of their addiction.
Dr Block said that although text messaging was not directly linked to the Internet, it was a form of instant messaging and needed to be included among the criteria.
“The chief reasons I see to consider it are motor vehicle accidents that are caused by cell phone instant messaging, stalking and harassment via instant messaging, and instant messaging at social, educational, (and) work functions where it creates problems,” he said.
“It should be a pervasive and problematic pattern, though, not isolated incidents.”
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3 comments:

airJackie said...

Once he buys stock in the company that sells Blackberry he will change his mind. I think people just want the money to do this stupid test. One was done on career woman would never marry. The test was done in the 50's well all the people tested were married and one got married twice. So that was money spent for nothing, now we have this one.

KittyBowTie1 said...

Hmmm, I wonder if this blog is mental, too.

Nah, but Biloxi knows exactly which blog is mental!!

SP Biloxi said...

"Nah, but Biloxi knows exactly which blog is mental!!"

And that is our little secret, Kittybowtie. ;-)

LOL!

And if people who used Blackberrys are mental. What can we say about the Gerbil who doesn't use the emails and the Internets but use The Google?