Turn a deaf ear and become deaf
[Ed.’s notes: Olivia, our Y.O! blogger, discusses the dangers of something so private to many of our hearts, or more accurately, careful to our ears - the ubiquitous mp3 sportsman.]
The Straits Times recently reported a go into on how teens in the Netherlands are apprised, but still choose to remain dispassionate, about the risks of mp3 players. I air that this scenario is often applicable to Singaporean teens too. Teenagers blasting music from their mp3 players are becoming commonplace in our community, and this trend has to be stemmed to check further damage to the general salubrity of those responsible for our nation’s expected.
One method may be to encourage the manufacturers to allow for prompts and signals within their gadgets to cue users of the most appropriate volumes to be adapted to. Awards and even markings correspond to to the “Healthier Voice” tags on unspecified foodstuff may be the way to go to urge vendors towards chargeable retailing.
Of course, educating parents and teachers on the harms of over-powering volumes from mp3 players, would be good too. Ensuring that these teenagers are constantly reminded to test the volume of their handy gadgets would certainly have some air on altering their undesirable habits.
In midget, the message is clear: turning a oblivious ear to the warnings of the latent risks within mp3 gadgets would potentially head up to deafness.
Contributed by Ong Xiu Hui Olivia, 18
Y.O! blogger
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