Kids, beware! Social networking might get you sick
An 18 year old Italian man gets an asthma attack every time he logs on to Facebook, but in the hospital the doctors didn’t find anything abnormal. Why? The doctors discovered that had recently broke up with his girlfriend who removed him from his friend list. Using a false alias the man managed to get in to the girls friend list again and spied her profile page every time he logged on to Facebook. This caused depression in him, which led to an acute asthma attack.
The doctors now recommend that social networking should be investigated in case acute asthma attacks on young people.
*Yay, the second (first, Orthorexia Nervosa) information age disease I know of. Someone should do a thesis or something on diseases that come from this overload of information we are subjected to*
Read article on The Lancet.
