Claim:   Photograph shows fingers damaged from too much mouse and keyboard use.

Status:   False.

Examples:   [Collected via e-mail, January 2007]

A friend of mine saw this pic on Myspace and wanted to know if it was true. It is supposedly a picture of someone's hand with marks on his/her fingertips from using the mouse and keyboard too much. The name of the file is "I think I've been spending too much time on the Internet."

Origins:   According to numerous inquiries we've received from readers, the above-displayed photograph has generated queasy feelings in quite a few viewers. They can take comfort in knowing that this image not only doesn't depict a finger condition resulting from too much mouse and keyboard use, it isn't even real.

Like the infamous "breast rash" image, this picture melds a human body part with something else found in nature (but not in humans), producing a bizarre and unsettling result. In this case the body parts involved are fingers, and the natural objects grafted onto them are pictures of the mouths of lampreys:

Last updated:   26 June 2007

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