Smartphone Pinky: Where Your Pinky is Deformed Because of Your Phone

Look at the pinky on the hand you use to hold your phone.  Does it look different than your other pinky?  If so, you might have the HOTTEST new deformity on the Internet, “Smartphone Pinky”!  It’s where your pinky looks dented because of the way you hold your phone.  So people have been sharing photos of their crooked, swollen, and curved pinky fingers, and they’re all blaming it on their phones.

 

Here’s the good news:  They’re worried over nothing.  There’s a very, very small chance you’ve done any actual damage to your finger.  The director of the New York Hand and Wrist Center says, “It’s no different than when you wear a sock with a tight elastic band and then you take it off.  There’s a slight indentation for a brief period of time, but it corrects itself.” 

 

(Here are a few photos people have shared of their ‘deformed’ pinkies, which don’t look that deformed at all.)

 

(Popular Science)