{"id":13403,"date":"2010-06-30T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-30T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T06:37:00","slug":"beware-textaphrenia-or-textiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/13403-beware-textaphrenia-or-textiety.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware textaphrenia or textiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Textaphrenia, post-traumatic text disorder, textiety, binge texting are other maladies that await the text-addicted, Australian researcher Jennie Carroll said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Carroll, of Melbourne’s RMIT University, was commenting on figures from phone service provider Boost Mobile that text traffic had almost doubled in volume since 2008.<\/p>\n

One of Boost’s teenage customers was averaging 444 messages a day.<\/p>\n

Among the possible downsides of texting, outlined by Carroll:<\/p>\n

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  1. Textaphrenia: the mistaken belief that you have heard the beep or felt the vibration of an incoming text message.<\/li>\n
  2. Post-traumatic text disorder: when texters walk into things or are otherwise oblivious to what is around them.<\/li>\n
  3. Textiety: the crisis of confidence when time goes by without a text being received.<\/li>\n
  4. Binge texting: sending a blizzard of texts to boost confidence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “With textaphrenia and textiety, there’s a feeling no one loves me, no one’s contacted me,” Carroll told the Herald Sun newspaper.<\/p>\n

    She said binge texting can either reflect the delusion you have more friends than you actually have or be a cry for help.<\/p>\n

    “You think you’ve been left out of the loop so you send a lot of texts and wait for the response,” Carroll said.<\/p>\n

    Text\/SMS problems<\/a><\/strong> << Give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And you thought a sore thumb was the only health risk for text-crazy teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}