Discomgooglation is a term coined to describe the stress people experience when they cannot access the internet. A study by psychologist Dr. David Lewis found that just under half of Britons admitted to feeling very stressed when they couldn’t get online. The term discomgooglelation is a combination of the words discombobulate and Google. Dr. Lewis’s study suggested that it’s not simply addiction, but also addiction to internet use. Around a quarter of Britons couldn’t really carry out normal activities without it due to its functionality and numerous uses.
Discomgooglation is a recently coined term to describe the symptoms noted by British scientists when people have been deprived of the ability to get their “fix” on the internet. A research study, conducted by psychologist Dr. David Lewis, showed that many people developed high levels of stress when they could not use the Internet and that the level of stress was actually medically measurable by assessing heart rate, blood pressure blood pressure and brain waves.
The term discomgooglelation is a combination of the words discombobulate and Google®, a popular search engine site. Dr. Lewis’s study and polls of Britons since then found that just under half admitted to feeling very stressed when they couldn’t get online. Other data from these surveys found that nearly half of respondents rated Internet use as more important than religion.
While the sample size of studies and surveys is still small, discomgoogle appears to describe what others would call Internet addiction. Dr. Lewis’s study suggested that it’s not simply addiction, but also addiction to Internet use. We may need it for jobs, contacts with other professionals, to alert children to schedule changes, or for a variety of reasons. Dr. Lewis’s work showed that around a quarter of Britons couldn’t really carry out normal activities without it due to its functionality and numerous uses.
The fact that people with discordance have symptoms such as stress if they cannot access the Internet does not necessarily mean they are addicted. Indeed, the whole issue of internet addiction has not been adequately addressed. The perceived stress might be analogous to not having access to a phone in the pre-Internet days, especially if that phone was vital to working or getting information.
However, the fact that psychologists are now labeling the symptoms of the breakdown and noting the high number of people who appear to suffer from the condition is an interesting fact. If the internet is so important, what would happen to a population that suddenly didn’t have access to it? Would there suddenly be a backlash?
In an emergency such as a natural disaster, would someone with discord become violent or less alert due to high levels of stress? How long will it take to recover from discogoogleting? It might be helpful to consider this new syndrome and other evidence of Internet addiction, as more and more people become addicted to the Internet.
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