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These three letters – SMS
from the article "These three letters SMS" by Tatyana Zaykova, LNSTU psychologist
translation from Russian by Nika, LNSTU

Our time has created so many new addictions, from computer to SMS one, the epidemic of which has already started in some of countries. Psychologists have already called it SMS illness, which, in their opinion, produces a destructive impact on human mind abilities and contributes to development of depression.
This illness has caught the population of some countries, where more and more people become the patients of mental clinics. They suffer from "extra typing", as doctors put it. Such people can't imagine their life without exchanging of short text messages by mobile phones. In some very difficult cases people spend more than 7

hours per day writing and reading messages. Children often become addicted too. Mass media contributes a lot to this; it motivates the child on luck, which after sending a message is supposed to fall from the sky.
It should be mentioned that SMS has become the part of youth culture; people not only search for luck but also tell about their love, put their revenge on enemies and just communicate. On the one hand, it's a simple way not to be alone. But on the other hand, the normal human contacts are replaced. The degree of SMS activity shows the degree of poor contacts, in its turn it leads to a low degree of social adaptation.

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