Our posture when using portable devices is an issue. Not just regarding joint pain, but also when it comes to creativity and mood. In this excellent paper the NYT explains why ‘Your iPhone Is Ruining Your Posture — and Your Mood‘.
“Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the iHunch”. And posture influences our mood like we explained in our posts ‘How simple is it to get positive emotions?‘ and ‘How we actually think with our bodies‘. So, as a result, because we tend to slouch when using portable devices, we are fostering negative emotions, such as “lower self-esteem and mood, and much greater fear”.
Stand up people of the Collaborative Age! And let’s hope that maintaining posture will be one of the key learning points of the schooling of the netizens of the future!
