LONDON (AP) — Beware unhappy asthmatics: Italian doctors warn that Facebook could trigger an attack in some susceptible users.
Really???? Yeah, and running to the bathroom might trigger an asthma attack too, but when you gotta go, you gotta go.
Gennaro D'Amato and colleagues treated an 18-year-old man whose asthma attacks were apparently sparked by logging into Facebook and seeing how many men his ex-girlfriend had friended.
Seems to me this idiot brought it upon himself. I have no pity for him.
The man had been taking two inhaled steroid drugs several times a day to control his asthma. But when his girlfriend dumped him — and worse, unfriended him on Facebook — his condition deteriorated.
Further proof he got what he deserved.
She dumped you, dude. You’re 18-years-old. It won’t be the last time in your life. It’s a part of life, everyone deals with it. Accept it, move on, you’ll find someone better. I promise. Life will not end because your girlfriend dumped you.
She unfriended you – gasp! That’s sort of what happens when you break up. She sure doesn’t want to read your status updates lamenting how much you miss her and want her back – nor does she want you to read the ones about how great she’s getting along without you. It’s for the best this way, trust me.
Did anyone think maybe she dumped him because he was a needy asthmatic who constantly carried an inhaler? I'm just saying, way to help your cause there, dude.
Using a new nickname, the man re-friended his ex-girlfriend on the social networking site. But the stress of seeing her photo on Facebook linked to so many new male friends was too much.
You made a new nickname? Okay, first of all, this is Facebook – not MySpace. You are supposed to use your real name because Facebook is not an online dating site … it’s for you to form an online network with people you already know.
Furthermore, let’s give it up to stupid ex-girlfriend for accepting a friend request from someone she didn’t know. Man, if you made up a good alias, she’s an idiot for accepting someone she doesn’t know. She’s just begging for trouble – I think she might have done you a favor by letting you go. Cause, she’s a slut, bong.
"The sight of this seemed to induce (shortness of breath), which happened repeatedly on the patient accessing her profile," wrote D'Amato of the High Specialty Hospital A Cardarelli in Naples, Italy and colleagues. Their letter was published Friday in the medical journal Lancet.
Here’s a tip, moron, if you can’t breathe when you look at her profile – STOP LOOKING AT IT! And stop jerking it to her profile picture. (Yeah, doctors didn’t think about that causing his shortness of breath, did they?)
The man's worried mother measured his breathing patterns before and after his Facebook activity and found a 20% difference. After consulting a psychiatrist, the man decided not to log into Facebook any more. That stopped the asthma attacks. D'Amato and colleagues say social networks could cause psychological stress and trigger attacks in depressed asthmatics.
His mom measured his breathing patterns? Why couldn’t she just say, “Hey, don’t do that. It’s causing an attack.” If he’s 18-years-old and has had asthma for any length of time, he should know what triggers his attacks and therefore stay away. He didn’t really need his mom to perform a science experiment on him, and consult with a psychiatrist, to figure it out. Jeez, what a moron.
Elitist AP Stylebook Nazi alert: We never, EVER use the percent sign (%). Always use the numeral (even if it's a number less than 10, in this instance it's okay) and spell out 'percent.'
Doctors, however, should not be advising anxious asthmatics to avoid social networking, said Max Blumberg a psychologist and research fellow at Goldsmiths University in London.
You think?
"One case study does not make for a good scientific study," he said. "We shouldn't demonize Facebook as the problem."
No duh. There is no bell curve, there is no standard deviation, and talk about a margin of error. Hardly a scientific study. I want to know how this single, isolated incident warranted an international article written about it. Must’ve been a slow news day.
He said that the man might have had the same reaction if he had heard the gossip about his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriends down at the village bar.
Really? That that didn’t cross my mind, or any one else’s who read this story. Thank you Dr. Obvious.
Blumberg also doubted people would refrain from using the popular networking site to snoop for potentially unsettling information. "How many people are going to be able to resist looking into what our ex-partners are doing?"
I have no pity for people who do this. If you can’t handle the potential hurt, don’t ask questions about your ex and/or don’t stalk their Facebook pages. I mean, it’s not rocket science. I seriously hate stupid people.
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