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  • Clinic: Text messaging can be addictive (So can Freeping)

    10/08/2003 7:24:35 AM PDT · by bedolido · 3 replies · 214+ views
    CNN ^ | 10/07/03 | Staff Writer
    <p>LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Too much text messaging? You may need professional help.</p> <p>More and more people are succumbing to so called "technology addictions," spending hours tapping on mobile phones or surfing the Internet, one of Britain's best known psychiatric clinics said on Saturday.</p>
  • Instant messaging pressuring teens, spreading good, bad info

    06/19/2003 10:26:08 AM PDT · by bedolido · 29 replies · 981+ views
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 06/19/03 | JAKE WAGMAN
    ST. LOUIS - (KRT) - Peer pressure, gossip and even compromising photographs have been part of high school for generations. But now that many teenage conversations have moved from school hallways to the Internet, locker room fodder can devastate young lives almost instantly. A recent incident at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in Ladue, Mo., made that clear. When a female student consented to send a male classmate a revealing photo of herself over the Internet, the photo ended up circulating online not only among students at MICDS but also among those at many other private and...