Comments on: Studies Show: The iPod Will Make Us Deaf

By: sara

sara — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:41:06 +0000

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?

By: sara

sara — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:38:37 +0000

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.

By: ela

ela — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:12:44 +0000

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.

By: Cookie

Cookie — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:37:18 +0000

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!

By: Samantha

Samantha — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:17:45 +0000

One hour a day?

Uh…yeah right.

By: what

what — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:11:33 +0000

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.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:18:10 +0000

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*

By: ela

ela — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:04:35 +0000

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.