<![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Whole story dumb, asian chick not hot, still can't drive worth shit, cell phone should be on fire.

Bring it!

Faslane66

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @munan:
Boy, what an ungrateful little bastard! I ought to kidnap him away to my house and watch him writhe as he tries to work the tubes on sub-28k dialup.

it'd be like methadone, to carry the analogy further.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I know that when I reset my router for whatever reason, I hear my son yell "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE INTERNET?!?" from his room.
It's like taking the opium away. There is something to be said, at least on the matter of internet addiction.

munan

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I don't trust this crap, I got that email about Miss Transgendered Asia or some crap.
Now whenever I see hot Asian babes I immediately start hunting for an Adams Apple.

Markii

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @AceKicker: Hey I Thought It Was A JAcuzzi Ad

@PeteUALaw: Not Unless you're using the FOMA F703i, which is the primary purpose of this AD

@redrabbit: Actually I couldn't think of a more better time to reply to your msg's other than when your relaxing or have some spare time on your hand. In the case of the picture, it is obvious that it is someone special

@mclark2112: Very true, how can you let go, when the Broadband connection is paid in advance for the whole month, you keep telling yourself, hey, its there i might as well use it, which brings me to this:

Last month i visited the SMS Capital of the world, that is the Philippines, and I found out first hand the whole myth behind it, nothing to it really, the Telecom's continuously offer 115 free txt with every 300peso reloads of your prepaid card. How can you resist?

@mrAnderson: Its cheaper than Business lunches and phone calls. No brainer.

@steviep831: Spot on, well said.

@wildness: They were probably gossiping, or didn't wanna be seen together, however, that guy in the movies is way to annoying, your right.

@undeadmachine: It is already there, the trick is not to take or do everything they tell you to do.:)

@nutbastard: SMS and email as you've all come to know is both legally binding in court, usable as an official statement of communication, and more importantly is proof of how many hours you've put in your work and how late you work and how much it cost you.. can be used for overtime and expenses re imbursments in the line of duty

...OMG I Am An Addict......!!!
Must STop..........
......................or not :P

OneObuyan

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Texting is a mental disorder. You are holding a PHONE in your hand while texting! Call them already! I mean no offense to our hearing impaired friends.

jstonemo

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Off course excessive texting is a disorder - I saw two co-workers texting each other a few weeks ago and they were only 20 feet apart!!! What isn't retarded about that? Two nights ago, i was at the movies and the guy in front of me was texting for the whole two hours! Besides the fact that he couldn't obviously be enjoying the movie, it was absolutely distracting for me between the movement and the glow of the screen.

And it isn't just the young. It isn't called a Crackberry for nothing.

Hell, I think people who go to Giz more than once a day are addicted as well. Why do you have to check for a new post every 10 minutes??!!?? It will still be the same news if you read it in the evening with all the other posts.

The real problem is that most people really need to get a life - I mean a real life, not a Second Life, or a virtual life, or a text life, or whatever. Come on people, get in touch with the your biology and disconnect from the matrix already.

wildness

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I think that people who constantly try to define illnesses in other people have a disorder. I mean really, you have to be sick to always be on the look out for other people's negatives... Am I right or am I right?

steviep831

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I guess being alive to much is a medical condition also.. I should probably kill myself soon before I become to addicted.

Kakkoister

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> so the next obvious step in all this, is to have a pharmaceutical company release the new 'ritalin' for the masses of 'infected' people and make a mint off this new mental condition....

undeadmachine

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @MickyK: Because Korea is where they have waterproof cellphones, and America isn't in Korea.

(D'uh!)

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @nutbastard: why doesn't america have waterproof cellphones :(

MickyK

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I can do without texting if it means no more idiots doing it while driving.

neosoul

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> man I hate it when one jackass psychologist and the news media team up to make the entire field of psychology look completely retarded.

People will display anger and tension when you strip them of their means to communicate, there's nothing crazy about that. Texting is rapidly becoming a more and more important means to communicate.

burningsensation

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @AceKicker: Definitely not.

Yeah, a mental disorder called "being a jackass".
In Japan, using cellphone too much might cause death.
In Soviet Russia, death uses cellphone much. Wut?

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Whoever mentioned texting on the john implies a cry for help, you are wrong! If you waste your time on the toilet "just dropping a deuce" then you need to acquire some serious time management skills. I always bring either my laptop or a book with me to the bathroom. Sometimes even at work. Yeah, I just went there.

Oh, and someone should invent an inventing-too-many-mental-disorders disorder. You know, where you sit around and invent new mental disorders all the time instead of being productive.

jamesuschrist

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @bugstomper2:
They have waterproof cellphones in korea.

[gizmodo.com]

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Since when is communication a mental disorder? Would he still call it that if the person talked on the phone all day instead of typing? What if they talked in person?

mrAnderson

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> That cellphone must be fake, because she has it in water. Carrying around a fake cellphone, is definitely a mental disorder!

bugstomper2

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @92BuickLeSabre:
STFU pussy! here, put this pig bladder powder on it, you'll be fine.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @nutbastard: Wait, isn't that a Whitney Houston quote?

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @CarbonatedWater:

"The only real sign of being addicted to cocaine for me is that I like to stay on cocaine as much as possible and I think this is the case for most cocaine oriented people. Not an actual addiction."

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Yeah I don't ever text but I do get pissed when my parents turn off the modem. That's because they're doing it purposely though. If the power went out or something I'd be disappointed but not angry. Maybe if it was in the middle of a download or something but I can always start it over.

The only real sign of being addicted to the internet for me is that I like to stay connected as much as possible and I think this is the case for most internet oriented people. Not and actual addiction.

CarbonatedWater

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @nutbastard: IprobablyshouldhavepretypedthatbeforeItoreoffmythumbs...ohgodsomebodyhelpme....please

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Jason Chen,

You were trying to tell me something weren't you? I just know it. There were apparently WORDS next to that incredible picture of a woman in a tub.

What were we talking about again?

axiomatic

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @92BuickLeSabre:

yeah just tell em "don move, BRB w/prmedcs ASAP k?"

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @IrisMR, cyborgtroy - Exactly. Tanning on purpose is really ridiculous, especially when done in a bed indoors. If you're going to go somewhere where there's lots of sun and don't wanna burn, then I can understand wanting to start with a base tan. But getting all dark bronze via a bed or wasting lots of hours lying outside in the sun? No thanks.

SunZhiQian

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @IrisMR: Yes, tanning is a serious problem.

It's like people think it's hot, but it really isn't and doing it on purpose is stupid.

cyborgtroy

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @nutbastard: Can you really ROFB to death from a ripped-off thumb?

I guess there's only one way to find out.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @kaneshadow:
"but people definitely have a fear of being alone because they don't want to hear themselves think."

how bizarre! pretty much my thoughts are the only ones i want to hear, since the rest of humanity is, you know, obviously dumber/less interesting than i am. Not to sound arrogant or anything, i just calls em how i see's em.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @keronian: Good memory!

Jason Chen

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @PeteUALaw:
that is the first thing i noticed.... well maybe the second

exobite

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Crapoo, she's back! (at least sans caption this time)

keronian

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @kaneshadow:
LOL, LOL... you won't be LOL when i rip your texting thumb off, no, you'll be ROFB to death.

: )

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @getz76:
doesn't really work, considering he's only got like 10 posts ever...

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @nutbastard: BTW I just MMSed you a pic of a family of ducks I saw crossing the road. How cute! LOL

kaneshadow

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @nutbastard:
I don't think it's being starved for attention, but people definitely have a fear of being alone because they don't want to hear themselves think. This just gives them another convenient avenue to babble about nothing and keep the voices at bay.


kaneshadow

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @Step666:
Ok, cool, but im still concerned as to why my purple sounds odorous when i swim through the walls....

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @getz76:

Is your statement supposed to contain some sort of sarcastic irony? Because it fails. And the issue about the obsession with Cell phones is irrelevent to my "rant". And I'm guessing that you are one of these people who is obsessed with their cell phone as well.

redrabbit

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Oh please! readers and whoever posted this pictures tell us where we can see more of this beauty.

I think I'm in love!!!!

potohead1

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @nutbastard: it just means you're a sociopath, it's not anything to get worked up about ;)

@Monty: reminds me of a Jeff Foxworthy joke about how the hotel suite he stayed at in Las Vegas one time had two phone lines in the bathroom by the toilet.
One's just about understandable but who needs to be able to put a person on hold and take a second call whilst on the loo?

Step666

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I think that the big push to get it into the DSM is to allow people to get treatment that is covered by health care. Some people have problems with this. I send around 20 TXT messages a month, usually because I refuse to talk to anybody when I am in public.

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I know some people - youngsters, mostly - who text constantly. I have to wonder, damn, are you that insecure/starved for attention? I cherish every moment of the day where im NOT interacting with other people. Of course, maybe that means i have a mental illness diametrically opposed to this one, but at least mine isn't costing me/other people 10 cents every 5 minutes.

Dont even get me started on the MMS addicts. NOBODY CARES ABOUT A LOW RES 30 CLIP OF SOME DOG YOU SAW AT THE SUPERMARKET!

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> i know some people who don't have internet in their homes or know how to send a text message. they're called old people and I've also heard the referred to as "lame."

jennarus

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> When in the restroom in our office you can often hear people using their BlackBerry while using the facilities. Is that addiction, stupidity, or just a standard daily bathroom surfing competition? Hard to say, but there does appear to be something wrong with folks that can not take ten minutes out of their day to relieve themselves without using a gadget.

Monty

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @BlindKarma: well it certainly doesnt looks like she is as happy as in picture numero uno. maybe the second picture should have a caption like... OMG I'm screwed now, my txts are gone and my phone died! Oh well... at least I still look hot siting in the tub. :)

Lego Addict

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Too much of ANYTHING isn't good for you.. not matter what it is.... too much water or oxygen can even kill you.

BookbagNinja

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @Slartibartfast:
For some IS an addiction.
Last time I was in Shanghai our company translator (a sweet girl like in the picture) was SMSing about 10 ~ 15 times per hour to friends and such about fashion, food, movies, etc...
I was so anoying, it looked right down weird. When I asked her, she said she was doing it because it was quicker than talking on the phone.

If you ask me, I think she did it because is less noticeable that chatting on the phone, so you cound SMS all day and not work because SMS is silent.

Pretty much like having a browser window behind some Excel file so it looks like you are working... (while reading Gizmodo).

Addition... maybe... she had the phone in hand at all times.... realy anoying.




aec007

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> hum...I think she's marketing the new Casio GZone phone...er oh hey she cute BTW. ; )

trailingedge

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @PeteUALaw: The cord on the blow dryer wasn't long enough so they just used what had. Too bad it didn't work.

BlindKarma

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I have yellow fever

Slartibartfast

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I completely agree with PeteUALaw..... (the Asian Chick, and the comment on addiction). Yes, this is addictive behavior... But that's truely what humans are programmed for! We WILL find something to get addicted to. Just because your personal 'addiction' might not be listed in the DSM-IV yet doesn't mean that it is any 'less' an addiction than opiates, alcohol, cigs, food, sex, love, etc.... It's all about that dopamine reward pathway in the brain.... You're already programmed to do whatever your brain wants you to do in order to keep that pathway activated.... The folks who aren't addicted to something are the REAL problem. They're denying their human nature.... Just look at what happens to a man that denies himself sex for years.... They end up going after kids or start holy wars! All the negative hype that comes out of the drug wars is because you have a government denying access and putting negative spin on things. Heroin was used medicinally for years...as were drugs like LSD, cocaine (still is), and MDMA.... If the gobment was making money off of it, then it would be a different story... Just so happens they can with text messaging, so that's not a disorder 'yet.... though I'm sure the alterior motive of this psychologist is to figure out a way to get paid by insurance companies to 'break' people of their text habit.

Just look at the ridiculous idea of Methadone clinics. We'll get you off the 'hard sh*t' and put you on the hardest sh*t out there....and we'll call it 'treatment' and everyone will be happy it....come on!...babble, babble

pharmboy

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Anyone else strangely turned-on by a hot asian girl texting on a cell phone in the water? Folks, I think we've found a new fetish.

Jimbuck

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> omg! wtf? plz, IDTS! w/e, idc. idk bout every1 else, but im sane, tyvm. k, g2g, ttyl, txt bck!

Zaxxon Q Blaque

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I think they should add obnoxious tanning to mental disorders too.

Oh wait, no, that's supposedly making you look healthy.

IrisMR

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @Darrone: +1

"people who are denied access to the internet or mobile phones displayed feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression?"
Yeah, but I get the same feelings when I'm denied ANYTHING I want. Getting angry because you don't get what you want doesn't automatically make you addicted, just spoiled like the rest of the world.
Instead of diagnosing people with addiction, try just tattooing "shit happens" inside their eyelids.

kahri

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> "people who are denied access to the internet or mobile phones displayed feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression?"

or.. boredom?

JuiceDaddy

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> I hate to be one of "those guys", but she's FAFH!

Galley

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @redrabbit: A rant about obsessed people from someone posting a comment on Gizmodo. Pot, meet Kettle.

getz76

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Can I get a medical marijuana script for these.. uh.. disorders?

magik-12

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @PeteUALaw: When your a hot asian chick, you don't need to be smart...

Every time more than 2 people do something it gets classified as two things; an addiction, and a disorder. Nobody cares, everything is addictive and no one is normal. Having a list of recognized diseases is pointless.

Darrone

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @AceKicker: on another note whoever
is it at Giz who choses the pics for the stories, I tip my hat to you sir/madam.

Boots_Mcoy

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> i applaud the gratuitous and unnecessary use of that picture. bravo, you magnificent bastard. bravo.

itouchgadgetsinappropriately

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @redrabbit: Agreed on all counts... I have several acquaintances that totally exhibit OCD texting behavior.

People, just call the lazy bastards already. I text shit, you text shit, but these people are glued to the damn things; and their "conversations" are as substantial as a box of donut holes from Dunk'in Donuts.

These are also the same people who always seem shocked thay have an addition $175 in text charges heaped on top of their regular plan - unless they were actually sharp enough to go for the unlimited texting option.

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Think she's from one of those "if you want to txt hot chicks send a message to..." ads?

Rususeruru

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @AceKicker:
There's a story?


SirDrinksalot

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Addictive personalities can and will get addicted to anything. I think I have an internet problem, not ready to do anything about it yet, but it is a real issue. Besides, if I did do something, Giz would suffer a huge ad revenue loss ;)

mclark2112

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> This isn't realistic. How about some fat bald guy using his blackberry in the tub? Oh the light hurts when I shine the magnifying glass on myself....

SchruteBuck

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Definitly. It's also known as obsession, and nothing good ever comes out of that. Unless the world is coming to an end, there is no reason for someone to be constantly texting. If your sitting on the john, or taking a bath like the sexy babe up there, or sleeping with your cellphone like my roomate does, then you know you need to take it down a notch. And if you can't, then you know you have a problem, because lives don't run on Cell phones.

I find it scary how people (usually ditzy preps) are so into their cellphones. And even more scared of how they can think of random useless shit to chat about.

redrabbit

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> @AceKicker: nope!

the_amazing_doug

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> ummm... isn't it bad to put cellphones in water?

Lego Addict

]]> <![CDATA[Sending Too Many SMS Messages Means You Have a Mental Disorder]]> Am I the one that only cares about this story only because of the images tagged to it?

AceKicker

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