Newspaper Publishes Totally Made Up List Of 'Disorders' Associated With Text Messaging
from the credibility? dept
As the anonymous person who submitted this story noted, this appears to be a respectable Australian news publication, presenting a list of totally made up "texting disorders" put together by a "technology researcher" as if they were real and serious issues. The list is almost comical:- Textaphrenia: thinking you've heard or felt a new text message vibration when there is no message.
- Textiety: a feeling of anxiety from not receiving or sending any text messages.
- Post-traumatic text disorder: injuries related to texting, such as walking into objects by not paying attention to your surroundings.
- Binge texting: sending massive amounts of texts to build self-esteem among peers.
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Yes, it is... :)
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textaphrenia
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Check out the disclamer...
Tis part "... and gives no warranty, guarantee or other representation about the accuracy of the information ..." says it all! :)
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They are real
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Why would you be afraid of Texas? Other than the idiots in Federal Court in East Texas and the idiots in office Down in Austin, Texas is a wonderful place.
...Oh wait, then you have the morons in the local police departments, and the corruption in the local governments...
Darn it...I think I may need to move!
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I actually like most of Texas. I was just going for a pun. Austin is one of my favorite towns, because of the live music. I spent time in Dallas and poked around some of the famous JFK sites and that was pretty awesome too...
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Or maybe Turrext syndrome. Every time someone sends a text you overreact.
Texteimers : Where text messages make you forget things because you're too focused on the text messages to pay attention to anything else.
TextSomia : You can't sleep because you're spending the entire night texting.
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Ertextial Dysfunction: When you have a problem getting it up despite sexy texts
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Turrext Syndrome would benot over overreacting to texts, but replying with random words of curse. :)
Textophobia: The fear of texting.
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OMG Yes. That could be really bad. My friends think I'm a textochondriac, but I think they're out to get me.
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Texanoya : Where you're paranoid that the next text will be bad news?
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Isn't "respectable Australian news publication" an oxymoron?
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I have no doubt that there are people in the world who do get these feelings regarding text messages, but they would almost certainly be an aspect of a larger issue (like depression or whatever). I would be very, very amazed indeed if someone could suffer from "textiety" and not feel any other form of chronic anxiety.
Same deal with "internet addiction". Can people get addicted to the internet? Sure they can. Is the problem just 100% pure internet with no other associated issues? Hell no. Claiming that "textiety" is an individual disorder by itself is like claiming switching a light on and off seven times before you leave the room is an individual disorder, rather than a symptom of OCD.
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What about textession, and not feeling any other form of chronic depression?
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or Autextism and not having any other symptoms of autism.
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A ha!
Obsessive Textpulsive Disorder: when your friends wonder why the fuck you had to send "LOL" five times....
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Collusion
Sure they do its called collusion.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. Still, the list has to be a joke, because they forgot a very important one:
Texthole - someone who texts while driving, eating, walking, or other events where paying attention and/or respecting others isn't performed.
Texthole, for the record, is now copyright. Pay me. ;)
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I'll call you later to make sure you got it.
Love, the Textiopath.
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You gotta be kidding!
NOW it makes sense!
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Needed to use a SarcMarc
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Illiteracy
"Binge texting: sending massive amounts of texts to build self-esteem among peers."
If you're building something among peers, it would be just plain esteem, not self-esteem. Self-esteem is how you feel about... wait for it... yourself! So you can't build it "among peers".
It makes me sad that so many people who have no business writing do so much of it.
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TM
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