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

By: Candie

Candie — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:42:00 +0000

I appreciate what you’ve wrote and thank you for bringing up topics some feel they shouldn’t.
Also being addicted to anything is bad, even when it’s music.

By: JulietxxRomeo

JulietxxRomeo — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:47:52 +0000

Well, I agree with you. But isnt being addicted to music better then being addicted to drugs and alchol and other things. I have to say that not all music is bad for you. becausei listen to classical music while studing or reading and it effect my learning more then total silence.

By: Sarah j.

Sarah j. — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:40:22 +0000

All of that is true for teens and many other people. I listen to music everytime I drive and nothing bad has ever happened I try to keep the volume just high enough that I can hear it and the outside of the car.

Anyway, your right about the headphones or earbuds I can’t even stand them they don’t fit my ears and they are just a lot of hassle with cord. I think it’s time for wireless. I use speakers with my MP3 in my room and in the car I just use my CD player in my car.

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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!!!

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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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