This AD has been circulating around the net for quite a while now. One of my co-workers saw this AD on a news site (she is working on car accident news for our company’s website). The video was already shown in England, and also in other news sites like CNN, BBC, and The Daily Telegraph.
The video shows three young girls in a car. The driver is sending a text message when she gets in a major accident including several other cars. The girl is seriously hurt, and her friends and another driver are killed.
The PSA is being shown to high school students in England, to show the serious and sometimes deadly results of using a cell phone while driving.
Chinese and Filipinos vie for the distinction as top senders of text messages worldwide. China’s texting fans overtook Filipinos last year, sending 1.6 billion text messages daily last year, while Filipinos sent an average of 1 billion texts daily.
China has over 600 million mobile phone subscribers, which is higher than all the subscriber in the ten Southeast Asia countries. The Philippines have an estimated 50 million mobile phone subscribers as of last year.
I guess one of the reasons why the text messages sent here in our country doubled is because, most people uses at least two existing subscriber network. And as cellphone prices gets cheaper, the cost to get more than one unit is highly affordable.
Posted on the December 27th, 2007 under News by Ryman
Another first in New Zealand, but this one is not to be celebrated for. A student, and a text addict I assume, that sends up to 100 text messages a day on her mobile phone has been diagnosed with texting tenosynovitis.
The 20-year-old has texting tenosynovitis, an inflammation of the tendons in the thumb caused by constant text messaging.
There have been only two other reported cases of the ailment – a school-aged child in Singapore and a 13 year-old girl in Australia.
This is a news to warn those who spends so much time texting, specially here in the Philippines, where there are hundreds of text addicts. Since the condition, carpal tunnel became widespread when people begun using computers in their everyday lives. Now there are more and more mobile users prone to the new ailment, texting tenosynovitis.
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