The generation MP3, on the way to isolation
20071231 10:56The experts alert of the psychological risks that you carry the abuse of these apparatuses, million teens’s symbol
Lucas has 13 years and you do not listen to anybody during some eight up-to-date hours neither talk with the other ones. That time is not the one that you dedicate to sleep. They are the hours that you spend with your reproducer’s earphones MP3 put. While you hear the songs of his favorite groups that you would make be everything if you put out your iPod. Sail across Internet, you remain in your room to fantasize, doing his duties tries, show your parents to the supermarket or you go out to go for a ride for the neighborhood with his friends. Only there is an unusual detail: There are not enough words and the direct communication in your life.
Just like 85 % of the teens under 15 years, Lucas is habitual user of a reproducer MP3. What you tell him apart of the majority of young people of his same age is that its fondness has become an obsession. For this reason, your case is being processed.
Reproducers MP3 and iPod have become converted, in less than a decade, in one of the more sold products of the industry of the leisure of history. In 2007, Apple caught up with the 100 million sold iPod; ITunes it is the bigger store of the world of songs, records and you program pre-recorded ( podcasts ) thought especially for these easily portable, present devices, according to a study of the Town Council of madrid, in almost 20 % of the Spanish homes. So much he is well then, in the latter months, experts they have started to ask themselves if your abuse, beyond the possible auditive losses, carries psychological risks and you can turn into a problem social.
Javier Abril, the psychologist that has studied cases seemed to the one belonging to Lucas and teacher of the Universidad San Vicente Mártir from Valencia ( UCV ), has the obvious ideas with regard to this matter: ” the abuse of these apparatuses provokes the isolation of the more young so much at the family surroundings like between the friends. Besides, it can lead to the appearing of anxiety, affecting self-esteem and magnifying some fears of adolescence. In any case, the fundamental problem is the lack of control in an age that parents should exercise its guides’ show in “.