E-Mail Deprivation Anxiety Has a Name: 'Discomgoogolation'
Apparently this whole Internet thing is really catching on....
A new British study has found that heavy Internet users often suffer from severe anxiety when not able to access the Web when and where they please. This does not qualify as news to anyone who has been sans e-mail for more than a day. What is news is the severity of the physiological fluctuation that accompanies "Discomgoogolation."
According to the report, the blood pressure and brain activity of those tested increased substantially when cut off from Internet access. The anxiety experienced was similar to that of a person about to take a test and in some cases equal to that of someone who was just fired. That sounds about right to us.
Some clinical psychologists are calling for Internet addiction to be recognized as a personality disorder.
We would offer commentary on this overwhelming techno-social shift, but we really need to check our e-mail.
Sorry. [From: DailyMail]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hd-productions.biz @ Sep 3rd 2008 6:04PM
Discomgoogolation now that is the term for suffering from no access to e-mail. Some would say get over it, others would say how important really is it to get that e-mail amongst all the other possibilities that life in the human offline world has to offer.
For many people e-mail is the lifeblood of communication in the 21st century and is an intrinsic part of their daily life and with out it they feel cut off.
In a book by Tim Ferriss called " the four hour work" week he advises people to go on an e-mail mail diet and not be like an e-mail junkie, but cut it down. E-mails have been shown to be counter productive to office life as people spend too much time responding automatically to every inbox entry as soon as it arrives.
Those that have urgent things to communicate can phone and leave a message.
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