Comments on: iPod Addiction: 8 Pros vs Cons and How to Balance

By: Vanessa Van Petten

Vanessa Van Petten — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:14:05 +0000

Great comment Chyenne!

By: Chyenne

Chyenne — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:00:06 +0000

My daughter’s boyfriend is addicted to the Itouch. He is 24 years old — most of the time, he doesn’t even respond to people who are speaking to him a few feet away. He goes to work for several hours, comes home,literally snaps the I-touch out of its holster, while plopping down in a chair for the rest of the evening. I have personally seen him on it for more than 6 hours without taking a break!

Finally, my duagher and he were going to split up. Because she was not being heard and virtually ignored, it became a constant one-sided argument. It is just like alcohol addiction, only without the physical violence. All the Apps calling out to him — just one more level to go, etc.

Seriously, how can you possibly have a relationship without COMMUNICTION? Eye ball to Eye ball! It is obviously an addiction when you can’t and won’t give time to the ones you supposedly care about.

What is really sad is that “ren” is right, being rude has become the norm. Clearly, the “I” Generation is just that – I touch – Ipod – I – I…. it is all about what “I” want. I want to keep staring into this plastic screen and not develop our relationship. In fact, I know that I am destroying our relationship, but don’t care —- perhaps?

My suggestion: Man up to your addiction and set up rules for your building your relationship UP. Touch your girlfriend — It is hard enough to build happy and healthy relationships — it takes one on one communication with one another.

Obviously, You should feel fortunate the a gorgeous woman wants to be part of your life, here, in the Real World. Be careful, she may start looking for a non-addict!

By: Hunter Quillen

Hunter Quillen — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:03:48 +0000

Awesome reasons!!!

By: Ten Minas Ministry » Blog Archive » Ipods, MP3 players and why you shouldn’t pretend they’re going to disappear

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:38:03 +0000

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By: ren

ren — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:49:41 +0000

How can you dedicate this piece to musicians and then want to dissuade people from becoming music junkies? To be honest, I think there’s generally a difference between the kids who seem inseparable from their mp3 players and people who are addicted to music. I think the former either tend to be addicted to the mp3 player itself and/or are the kind of people who can’t stand silence, as a lot of young people nowadays tend to be. It’s not so much about the music. I listen to my mp3 player a lot, but it’s usually just the love of music and boredom that drive it. And being a “music junkie” at an early age is exactly the reason why I got into music production and songwriting, and loving electronics such as mp3 players is why I’m pursuing a new career in the Information Technology industry. So is it really all bad?

I also want to point out that, at least for me–but I think also for MANY people–um, our wearing buds and headphones is a message to others sometimes. That message would be “Don’t talk to me.” This goes to your point about being anti-social. You ARE abnormally social, but I also might be the opposite end of the scale. It honestly pisses me off when people can see I have earphones in or headphones on and they still come up and try to talk to me. I’m in the music zone, trying to enjoy it, so talking to others is not what I want to do at that moment and suddenly I have to just to be respectful. It’s not like I wear them in public, like the grocery store, either. I’m talking my bedroom or public transportation, where pretty much no one talks to anyone else (at least in Chicago) unless they know each other. It’s kind of like you were saying about the airplane–you don’t always want to spend the flight talking to somebody you don’t know.

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By: Vanessa Van Petten

Vanessa Van Petten — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:13:36 +0000

I think everything is about balance, and if you love your music and it is not taking you away from life but adding to it, I think that is all we can ask for!

Vanessa

By: virtual worlds for kids

virtual worlds for kids — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:01:07 +0000

I used to think that i’m an ipod addict. but after a while, i started to realise ‘no i’m not’, i’m the other one. music junkies! i hv to keep the music on even when i’m sleeping or studying.
what i dont get here , it’s the tips of controlling ipod addiction and music junkie.
yes, I have hard boundaries and limits, and i take a day off every once in a while, but why ‘stop it early’? I just dont think that being a music junkie will bring any harm to anyone..

By: Elirida

Elirida — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:07:02 +0000

first off let me say this, I love my ipod to death so don’t try to talk me out of being addicted to it. I think it it’s a little crazy to say that kids miss out on life. being a kid myself, I don’t see kids with their earbuds in 24 seven so i think that’s being a little extreme and mean. I also dont think that ipods are the symble of our generation or watever cause everybody now has cell phones not ipods.