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Studies Show: The iPod Will Make Us Deaf
October 21, 2008 Posted in News
Listen up, iPod users (while you still can).
You may love listening to your music on the way to class, during class, or in the library to drown out the sounds of those annoying kids who won’t shut up, but it looks like all that jamming is going to wreak havoc on your hearing.
It used to be a myth or a worry, but now there is actual proof that listening to your iPod or other personal music players (are there any besides the iPod?) too loud can lead to some pretty serious long-term problems. Like total hearing loss. The New York Times reports:
“Regularly listening to personal music players at high-volume settings when young,” the report said, “often has no immediate effect on hearing but is likely to result in hearing loss later in life.” The report is the latest of several to warn that the “MP3” generation of youths may be heading for hearing impairment in later life.
Um. Sh*t. Looks like our entire generation is gonna be without hearing in just a few short years. And those of us with those handy dandy inner-ear buds (like the crappy ones Apple makes that are always falling out of my ears) are even worse off, because they get even closer to our ear drums and cause more damage.
Want to be able to listen to music in your 40′s? Scientists recommend “limiting listening time to one hour per day and setting the volume to no more than 60 percent of maximum sound output when using headphones that are placed over the ears — and even less when using ear buds.”
It may be tempting to rock out to Journey on your way to a 9am class, but turn down the music. Not only does it annoy the rest of the people on the bus with you, but it just isn’t worth it when you consider the alternative: never being able to perform “Don’t Stop Believing” at Karaoke again.
Oh the horror.
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ela says:
Tue, 21st Oct 20081:04 pm
just as our parents went to loud rock concert for yrs…we also listen to music (ours is maybe even quieter…no ringing in the ear aftershock) and they're fine, and we will be too. typical american alarmist theory. one day its good one day it can kill ya…enjoy your music while you're alive.
Michelle says:
Tue, 21st Oct 20081:18 pm
Tell us something we don't know… they've been saying this for years… Walkman, personal CD players…. pretty soon they're going to tell us cellphones will give us brain cancer. *rolls eyes*
what says:
Tue, 21st Oct 20083:11 pm
If you're listening with the inner ear ones on max, they'll die in a day from distortion anyway. But we are the first generation to have our own theme songs for our life wherever we go. Maybe your ears just decide to go deaf from hearing Crowded House on repeat.
Samantha says:
Tue, 21st Oct 20085:17 pm
One hour a day?
Uh…yeah right.
Cookie says:
Tue, 21st Oct 20085:37 pm
You guys are laughing about it now, but just wait until you get tinnitus. About two years of listening to my iPod (on and off, of course), I began hearing low ringing-like whines in one ear or both occasionally. It would only last a few minutes, but it was incredibly distracting. I stopped using my iPod and I rarely, if ever, get that ringing in my ears now.
People forget that the damage you do to your eardrums is permanent. But you know, if you wanna, like, totally listen to whatever you, like, want, wherever you go, and just, like, have crappy hearing when you're, like, all old and stuff, then whatever!
ela says:
Wed, 22nd Oct 20081:12 am
what's with the valley girl mockery? totally unnecessary. none of us even had that kind of tone in our comments. so there like totally like always has to be like a chastising poster for every story to like teach us a lesson…jeez i better start reading bookz.
sara says:
Thu, 23rd Oct 200810:38 am
Michelle, when you said "pretty soon they’re going to tell us cellphones will give us brain cancer. *rolls eyes*" I'm sure you didn't mean to offend, but just wanted to tell you the facts:
My uncle just recovered after being diagnosed with tonsil cancer. He is a salesmen and conducts most of his business over the phone, he's on his cell phone for literally 3-4 hours a day. When he was getting chemo and radiation, the nurse working on him told him that she saw another case like his and there are starting to be many correlations between frequent cell phone usage and cancer in regions of the throat and head.
Don't forget, cell phones emit radiation. While this radiation is a much lower frequency than x-rays, it is somewhere around the strength of microwaves and radio waves. Learning about this in chemistry right now. RADIATION. As in, too much usage can mutate your cells. My hunch may be wrong, but I'm convinced that my uncle's cancer (which occurred on the same side he held his cell phone to his head hours each day) can be attributed- at least in part- to his cell phone.
sara says:
Thu, 23rd Oct 200810:41 am
To continue: cell phones are a relatively new technology, and the dangers of them may not be evident until our generation grows older and starts seeing the effects of using them throughout their lifetime.
I am on my speakerphone for at least 50% of my conversations now, even if I'm wrong, can't hurt right?