The Dangers of iPods & MP3 Players
People of all ages use iPods and MP3 players for listening to music, the news, and even to audio books. These are fabulous, small gadgets that are easy to transport and use just about anywhere. I use my MP3 player all the time: while commuting on the bus, running on the treadmill, sitting at my desk at work. However, there are some risks to using these devices that everyone should be aware of. With a bit of caution and common sense, you should easily be able to avoid these dangers.
For Those Who Like It Loud
If you listen to the music at a high volume, you can suffer
from hearing loss because you wear the device tucked into your ear canal. Hearing loss isn’t only related to the volume of what you listen to, but also the duration. MP3 players and iPods are designed to hold countless songs, and provide long amounts of continuous listening time. No matter your age, you have to keep the risk of potential hearing loss in mind while listening to these devices.
In fact, many of these gadgets will begin to have built in time limits that won’t let you listen to music past a certain decibel after a set amount of time.
By Stacie Naczelnik
People of all ages use iPods and MP3 players for listening to music, the news, and even to audio books. These are fabulous, small gadgets that are easy to transport and use just about anywhere. I use my MP3 player all the time: while commuting on the bus, running on the treadmill, sitting at my desk at work. However, there are some risks to using these devices that everyone should be aware of. With a bit of caution and common sense, you should easily be able to avoid these dangers.
For Those Who Like It Loud
If you listen to the music at a high volume, you can suffer
from hearing loss because you wear the device tucked into your ear canal. Hearing loss isn’t only related to the volume of what you listen to, but also the duration. MP3 players and iPods are designed to hold countless songs, and provide long amounts of continuous listening time. No matter your age, you have to keep the risk of potential hearing loss in mind while listening to these devices.In fact, many of these gadgets will begin to have built in time limits that won’t let you listen to music past a certain decibel after a set amount of time.
By Stacie Naczelnik
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The article The Dangers of iPods & MP3 Players has a similar theme just like The Veldt. Now we've all heard the quote "Excess of anything isn't good", I think the same would apply to the situation of ipods. I think there should be limits to everything, and when too much freedom is givin problems arise. A specific example from the short story, "The Veldt" is, "It won't hurt for the children to be locked out of it awhile. Too much of anything isn't good for anyone. And it was cearly indicated that the children had been spending a little too much time on Africa." This was stated by George Hadley who played the father in the story. An example from the article that relates to this is, "In fact, many of these gadgets will begin to have built in time limits that won’t let you listen to music past a certain decibel after a set amount of time." Again referring back to my quote, they're trying to put a limit towards how much you should listen to your Ipod to reduce your chances of hear loss.
The article The Dangers of iPods & MP3 Players has a similar theme just like The Veldt. Now we've all heard the quote "Excess of anything isn't good", I think the same would apply to the situation of ipods. I think there should be limits to everything, and when too much freedom is givin problems arise. A specific example from the short story, "The Veldt" is, "It won't hurt for the children to be locked out of it awhile. Too much of anything isn't good for anyone. And it was cearly indicated that the children had been spending a little too much time on Africa." This was stated by George Hadley who played the father in the story. An example from the article that relates to this is, "In fact, many of these gadgets will begin to have built in time limits that won’t let you listen to music past a certain decibel after a set amount of time." Again referring back to my quote, they're trying to put a limit towards how much you should listen to your Ipod to reduce your chances of hear loss.
Another specific example from the short story is, "We've given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward ---secrecy, disobdeience?" I think this quote can be connected with Ipods because in todays world I think that technology plays a more important roles in kids and teens life as compared to family. If you just look around you, you will that as more newer technology is being created the more and more of the parents authority of the parents is being undermined.
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