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Mobile telephone 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.

Read more... (The Sydney Morning Herald)
what?
ridiculous... articles like this need not to be a part of a physics website. text-related injuries? come on guys. seriously
galacticwarrior
umm physically the designs of smaller and smaller mobile equipment will cost every country millions in lost time of people from work.not includint the millions of people who will blame their jobs and get some sort of payement for the so called disabillity.
someone will bnlame the physisits who came up with the very idear of radio and the introduction of smaller cheaper faster communication i mean the buck in a lawers hands will stop somewhere >)
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555Joshua
laugh.gif I know typing all day can make a certain part of your body hurt (the hands and wrist). I know some other things can make some other parts of your body hurt if you do them all day (better not say). laugh.gif

If it hurts don't do it. Texting to much can get you carpal tunnel syndrome. I hear it hurts more than the sore muscles from texting. blink.gif

Since we're speaking about Brittan, I got something you might enjoy. rolleyes.gif Did you know that half of all Brittans say something encouraging to their CARS during or before a long trip? laugh.gif

And I thought I was nuts for talking to MYSELF.
555Joshua
I almost forgot. SMS (South west Missouri State) is the old name of Missouri state. What a coincidence. Not really, once you change the name of your university half a million times the odds are, you'll find a match somewhere. dry.gif
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rpenner
Text messaging can cause damage to your social life, too.

I have seen people become over-accustomed to this always-on technology and text message in the middle of movies and visits to the homes of friends.

On an episode of Cartoon Network's animated series The Boondocks, the character Gin Rummy, voiced by Samuel Jackson, says some things about text messaging that I feel are true.
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