It was amazing to see how people of all age groups not just necessarily teens who use mp3s and use them fully. By fully I mean turn the dial up on the volume to the max. These actions, as any other extreme action, come with higher consequences: hearing loss. When facing this problem, it is easy for the consumer to blame the product. What is hard is accepting responsibility. It is the consumer who must accept that they were the ones who put the volume up until they turned temporarily deaf. Adults as well as teens are guilty for draining their ears’ noise capacity. This goes against the common belief that it is only teens who are “plugged in”. In fact, in this study, the group (adults and teens) stated that if they knew that the mp3 they were using was affecting their hearing they would not stop or adjust to a lower volume. This type of attitude is what has caused hearing loss cases to increase in the Unites States.
Though the statistics shown in this article were eye-opening, none of them surprised me more than the people’s reactions in the reports. The vast majority did not care enough for their own health, they would rather listen to their mp3s and “bump” their music.
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