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Order marijuana via SMS?02/01/2005
Along with mobile phones, SMS messages have burst into our lives and quickly gained popularity, becoming an integral part of youth culture. With short, chopped phrases, migrating from mobile phone to mobile phone, young people confess their love, pass on secrets, take revenge on enemies and simply communicate with each other. The income of mobile operators is steadily growing. And psychologists are talking about a new disease that has engulfed not only Russia, but the entire world: SMS addiction. Recently, completely new offers have appeared among private advertisements for the services of professional psychologists. Along with "traditional" problems - alcoholism, drug addiction and even gambling addiction - specialists are now ready to cure SMS-mania. So far, not much is known about this side of the passion for mobile communications in Russia. But in the West, SMS-addiction has already become the subject of scientific research. Recently, British doctors from the elite psychological clinic Priory Clinic came to the conclusion that sending SMS (by the way, this abbreviation stands for Short message service) is turning into a real mania. Among the patients of this medical institution suffering from addiction to gambling, there are increasingly those who are firmly hooked on "text messages". These people can spend hours sending short text messages. According to the chief physician of this clinic, Mark Collins, for SMS fans, a text message is not a means of communication, but a real habitat. At the same time, the patient may not even suspect his illness. But German psychotherapist Andreas Herter is convinced that in Germany alone at least 380 thousand people suffer from SMS addiction. "SMS addiction is a real and serious disease, it has a negative impact on a person's mental abilities and leads to financial ruin," says Andreas Herter. Operators are getting young people hooked on SMS "There are no in-depth studies of the SMS problem in Russia yet," Sergei Yenikopolov, head of the clinical psychology department at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences' Mental Health Research Center, told NI. "However, there are already studies of Internet addiction. According to one hypothesis, the popularity of virtual communication is due to the fact that people have simply forgotten how to communicate with each other." "The first mobile phone addicts appeared with the first phones," psychologist Olga Makhovskaya tells NI. "And now operators are trying to get as many people hooked on mobile phones as possible. And SMS is one of the methods. On the one hand, it seems to be a way to brighten up loneliness. But on the other hand, normal human contacts are being squeezed out. Observation of couples who are distinguished by tracer phone activity during the day shows that when they meet, they simply have nothing to talk about. All passion evaporates during the day. The same thing happens during SMS communication." "It's so interesting!" Meanwhile, the mobile communications market continues to develop, and the number of SMS lovers is growing day by day. Thus, if in 2003, according to experts, Russians sent more than 3 billion text messages from their mobile phones, then in 2004 this figure doubled, and in 2005 it should become three times more. The main users of SMS are young people aged 16 to 25. "SMS communication is a fashion. A fashion for mobility," says Alexander Voyskunovsky, senior research fellow at the Department of General Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. "Being always in touch, always up to date with events is a style of modern life. And SMS communication acts as a means." "It's so interesting to send each other SMS," says Katya Semina. She is 15 years old and can't imagine her life without SMS. "Only my parents don't understand this and are always grumbling. But this is how I save their money!" Katya's morning begins with receiving an SMS horoscope and SMS weather on her mobile. Then bath procedures and breakfast, during which she sends her friend the traditional "I woke up". On the way to school, Katya receives about 10 more SMS from classmates and acquaintances on her mobile. But only one gets into the SMS piggy bank - from her boyfriend: "I miss you". The love for SMS is explained not only by its cheapness, but also by the variety of functions that SMS can perform. For example, Oksana, Katya Semina's friend, is looking for young people using SMS dating. Love by SMS "This search is no different from communication in Internet chats," the girl explains. "If you see that a young man suits you, then you give him your mobile number or simply arrange a meeting." Oksana now has her third SMS foundling. “Even during dates, we sometimes sit down on a bench and start sending each other text messages,” she says seriously, not noticing the absurdity of this situation. However, according to the girl, in real life, not one of the SMS-gentlemen, even the current one, has lived up to the image that she imagined during the correspondence. But Oksana does not despair and believes in luck. After all, it is not for nothing that dating via SMS is now so fashionable. "If we talk about virtual communication, anonymity plays a big role here. A person can imagine himself as someone else, give himself a new image," says Sergey Yenikopolov. "He does not need to look his interlocutor in the eye. He can hide his true feelings. So this is, if not a disease, then a symptom of the fact that people find communication difficult." "Dating by correspondence existed before. People wrote letters to each other and agreed to meet," explains Alexander Voyskunovsky. "But they never reached the scale they have today. Although in most cases, when meeting in person, such acquaintances fail. People, as a rule, do not like each other. However, there are also successful acquaintances, after which people start dating, get married. But they are rare, which is why they are so often remembered and cited as an example." Adult Secrets SMS helps Nikolai keep secrets from his wife. He works at an insurance company and has been having an affair with his young colleague Vera for three years. She taught him to communicate via SMS. Before, he did not understand what these letters and hooks were for. And now 50-year-old Nikolai manages to make dates with his mistress and confess his love to her even in the presence of his wife, who thinks that her husband is simply obsessed with an adult toy. That's what she calls a mobile phone. "My wife thinks that thanks to my mobile phone she has me under complete control," laughs Nikolai. "After all, she also sends me SMS instructions every now and then: "come in," "buy," "don't forget." Others SMS give the opportunity to feel like a judge for a short moment during voting for participants of all sorts of reality shows. And there are also pictures, melodies, games. In general, to each his own. Criminal messages Meanwhile, operators offer new services for mobile users. Now you can not only order pictures, melodies, jokes and anecdotes, but even open your own SMS chat on any topic. Soon in Moscow, using an SMS request, you will be able to find out the arrival time of a specific bus or trolleybus at a stop. And on New Year's Eve, the Moscow City Telephone Network made its own gift to fans of the electronic epistolary genre. In the capital, 3,000 payphones were re-equipped for sending SMS. Messages from such a device cost 2 units (about 6 rubles) - this is much more expensive than from a mobile phone. However, criminals also take an interest in SMS messages. In a number of Volga cities, you can call prostitutes to your home via SMS. And in the capital, not long ago, a drug dealer was caught selling "dope" via SMS. He randomly dialed mobile phone numbers and sent messages saying "Selling marijuana." After that, clients called him and arranged a meeting, which usually took place in supermarkets. The dealer took money from the customers and in exchange gave the key to the locker in the storage room, where the addict found his dose. The operatives detained the drug dealer during one of these meetings, arranged via SMS. Fortunately, young people still communicate more often via SMS. Although linguists are skeptical about this type of communication. "Text messages only have some features of the epistolary genre," says Oksana Grumchenko, a PhD in Philology and an employee of the Culture Department of the Institute of Russian Language. "Traditional letters of the 19th century conveyed all the details and particulars, and they assumed the same colorful response. But SMS messages form extremely short phrases, laconicisms, reduced to the level of genre characteristics, to which an action can also serve as a response. How can messages like "go out," "waiting," "I will" be called full-fledged letters?" "I send about 30 such messages a day," explains 15-year-old Katya Semina. "Of course, these aren't Tatyana's letters to Onegin, but my friends understand everything I want to tell them. I have plenty of acquaintances who correspond more actively." "New News"
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