A newspaper report in the Straits Times on Monday titled ‘Blogged out’, tells the story of the death of two internet writers which underlines dangers of 24/7 stress.
So what does this imply? Blogging kills? Reading further, the article talks on the first victim who was a prolific blogger on technology subjects, died at 60 years old of a heart attack. The second victim is a technology blogger, died at 50 years old of a massive coronary. The coronary artery is blood vessel that supplies blood and oxygen to the heart. Therefore, if the artery is blocked, the blood cannot flow to the heart and part of the heart dies.
Indeed, working long hours on the computer is hazardous for the human body. As reported, most bloggers have turned their home into offices so that they can provide first hand technology development and news to the competitive new media. Some of the health issues bloggers complain are ‘weight loss or gain, sleeping disorder, exhaustion, and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing news' and getting caught in the information cycle that is continuously going on in the internet.
So what can we resolve from this?
1 comment:
get out and live a little rather than sit before the comp trying to just churn out post after post.
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