Yakosphere = Danger of Brain Tumors
Heavy cell phone use linked to brain tumors. The Swedish study defines heavy use as 2,000 hours or more cumulative lifetime — which equals an hour/day for 5-1/2 years.
I hate talking on the phone. Probably average 10 minutes a day tops on the cell phone. Even at that low level, I’ll hit 2,000 hours in 33 years. That’s OK for me, I didn’t get my first cell phone until my late 40s. But kids who start out at age 10 or 12 with their own phones and spend hours a day in the yakosphere may be in for trouble. An hour a day starting at age 12 will put a kid in the danger zone before age 18.
Kids (and other humans) need to yack less and blog more. Carpal tunnel is better than a brain tumor.
