Ringtone - So high adults can't hear or unexistant

[Elspeth]

rilla said:

me said:

How old are you then? Or are you just abnormal (in a wonderful way)?

I'm only 15...

Well, I can add "bad hearing" to "bad eyesight" now

According to the people who teach the deaf students at the school where I work, the average fifteen year old has the same hearing as a forty-five year old these days. So anyone who's marketing a ringtone that "only under twenties can hear" is probably missing their mark by a mile.

[Kaylan-R]

lol That's cause all of the new high - tech stuff that's come out like mp3's and ipods lol I dont have nay of those, just an old steroeo and good old windows media player and realplayer. lol
It's still wierd that I've got excellent hearing and poor eyesight lol :/

[Emma-Jayde]

If you can't hear it, it could also be that your computer isn't capable of producing the sound through its speakers- I can hear it on the desktop computer, but not on my laptop.

Personally though, the sound drives me insane. It gives me a headache, and I wouldn't even go near a shopping centre that had a shop playing that sound.
It may have originally been designed to keep kids away... But I'd say teens make up a good percentage of sales, no?And the fact that some adults can hear it too kind of makes it a bit redundant.

[Roland]

Yeah it hurts doesn't it? It's almost too high for me to hear, but what I can hurts my brain