Texting Affects Your Spine

Kate Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” claims that texting is an issue to teenagers around the world. As an illustration, Hafner starts the article by identifying that teenagers send a drastic amount of texts in their everyday lives. according to the Nielsen Company, “American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008”(1). This is just one of the examples of many that portrays teenagers around the world send many text messages. Along with teenagers sending many texts a day, hafner also shows in this article that texting is affecting teenager's life in many different ways for example, preventing teenagers' way of becoming independent. Just as professor Turkle presented,

True enough, relaxing at the working office is less challenging when compared with walking, biking, or traversing difficult trails. Due to the sedentary lifestyle of several people, their bodies greatly suffer. According to studies, back pain is an extremely common condition and almost all of today’s workforce is experiencing it. While using cool atmosphere provided by the air-conditioning systems and limited body movements, the physical is

Geoffrey Fowler's "Texting While Walking Isn't Funny Anymore" Article is about how people around the world are getting hurt while using their cell phones and how addictive cell phones can be. People are walking into fountains, constructuion sites, and in front of cars because they are texting while walking. Statistics show that people are getting hurt and smart phone inventors think they have a solution. According to an article, China has already taken action by issueing a fine to people for texting and walking. Other countries might follow China's lead. Texting while walking has become very common and since 2006, emergency visits have tripled. Texting while walking has become a big eye opener in relation to injuries and accidents, and soon it will be illegal to text and walk in certain states."cell phones have taken away something from us too." Cell phones have taken away from how people communicate, children do not go outside to play anymore but perfer electronics devices, and humans have a short attention span when they are using cell phones.

“Does Texting Affect Writing” is about Michaela Cullington, the author, comparing two opposing perspectives. The perspective is whether texting hinders the formal writing skills of students or not. Millennials are a population that cannot go a day without looking at their phones so, due to the “increasing use of mobile phones, concerns have been raised about its influence on their literacy skills. No matter if it is sending or receiving a text or checking social media sites, technology has taken over the lives of the young generations. The essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” in They Say, I say exposes how the significant action of texting and using textspeak, i.e. abbreviations and symbols, may be hindering the writing skills of teenaged students. People communicate using textese to “more quickly type what they are trying to say” (Cullington, 2017, p. 361). Textese is a “register that allows omission of words and the use or textisms: instances of non-standard written language such as 4ever” (Van Dijk, 2016). When these people use textese often, it can become habitual and transition into their school assignments. Michaela Cullington constantly repeats words and uses comparisons and abnormalities for the concerns about textspeak, the responses to the concerns, methods and the discussion of findings on the topic to be analyzed.

In Amy Cuddy's article,"Your iPhone is Ruining Your Posture-and Your Mood," and Jane Brody's article, Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind," the authors both focus on the bad habit of slouching, which can cause physical and mental pain. Both authors have credible evidence that seems relatable to the rest of us, mainly through cited sources.

According to Text Neck Institute, the statistics show us that 75% of the world’s population spends hours daily are hunched over their phones. But the shocking thing is that teenagers are more in danger of developing text neck. According to research teens spend 5,000 hours per year are hunched over their phones and other digital devices that will negatively impact them, they wouldn't even know. Some things which will trigger the symptoms of Text Neck are the continuous forward flexing that will cause changes in the cervical spine. The symptoms of Text Neck are pain felt in the neck, shoulders, back and headaches and numbness and tingling of the upper extremities. If the condition is left untreated, Text Neck can result to permanent damage to the spine, which can lead to serious diseases related to spine such as Disc Herniation and early onset to Arthritis. “A disc herniation occurs when one of the disk between the vertebrae ruptures. When a person keeps his or her head in a forward position or in a downward position for too long, A ruptured disc can cause some of the softer "jelly-like tissue" to push out through crack into the tougher exterior of the disc. According to the Mayo Clinic, A herniated disk can irritate nearby nerves and numbness in the arms or legs. Furthermore, text neck can also lead to onset to early arthritis. According to Mayo Clinic, “arthritis can result in swelling in the joints which can cause pain and stiffness that can worsen with age”. These are the effects of prolonged use of digital devices on the

In the editorials "Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind" by Jane Brody and "Your iPhone Is Ruining Your Posture- and Your Mood" by Amy Cuddy, both claim that our mobile devices are ruining our posture and mood. Our physical being is impacted negatively by poor habits, not only that also our mental and emotional being as well.

In Katie Hafner's “Texting May be Taking a Toll”, she elucidates how teenagers are focusing on what is happening on their phones rather than what matters most.The first point the author is trying to make is teenagers texting too much which is causing distractions, failing grades, and sleep deprivation throughout the day. The author states, physicians and psychologists worry “... it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation”(1). This is stating, teenagers are not paying enough attention to school work or how they are doing physically, but instead are paying attention to who texted them and what is happening. Also, the author is expressing texting can be a tool for many but may

79 % of people who use the smartphone daily is affected by new technology ailment : text neck.

According to a study conducted by New York spine surgeon Kenneth Hansraj, bending your head to look at the mobile device in your hands can put up to 60 pounds of pressure on your neck. And it's not just teens who are checking their phones constantly; most adults are also obsessed with their phones and tablets, using the devices for texting, videos, and social media. “Text neck is not just a texting problem, “says Fishman. “Text neck is a gaming problem. Text neck is an emailing problem.”

It may not only affect your posture but as well as you daily mood as explained in "Your iPhone is Ruining Your Posture - and Your Mood.” Almost everyone has a phone nowadays. By using a phone as an example, Cuddy is able to relate to most people. She is able to make it easier for readers to make changes in their lifestyle that will lead to better posture and better awareness of the position our bodies are in. Amy cuddy explains in her editorial “The next time you reach for your phone, remember that it induces slouching, and slouching changes your mood, your memory and even your behavior. Your physical posture sculpts your psychological posture, and could be the key to a happier mood and greater self-confidence.” Audiences feel like they have a personal stake in the information

These two article's try to find if it can ruin your posture or mood ,so that's what they are trying to say to the people that read it. Many say it could ruin it others say it's a joking that they are trying to get teenagers to stop using there " Smart Phones."

Slouching or leaning forward can cause stress on muscles around our neck and between our shoulder blades, injuries form this are more commonly called “Text Neck” due to the prolonged amount of time we slouch our necks in order to look down at our cell phones. Brody states in her editorial, “Slouching while sitting hour after hour can result in a persistent slouch, while standing and walking while slouched can lead to permanently rounded shoulders and upper back.” These are basically what our technological society has achieved, loads of work and deformed bodies that have adjusted to the type of work that is

Texting has many effects. When I think of texting many dangerous and unethical behaviors come to mind. We all know texting has a brief history, many people prefer texting to talking on the phone, and texting has its own problems when misuse. When we are texting communication is lost and is in considered of others and mostly affecting people’s health.

Moreover, staying in just one position for a long period ( sitting in a chair with a bright computer screen right in front of you) can make you more susceptible to neck, back, and shoulder pain. All these can even affect your performance and inadvertently limit the progress of the company.