I love new words, and this article about how the Internet is ruining our memories includes several very cool ones:

• Nomophobia (fear of losing your mobile phone)
• Technoference (when tech tools interfere with your personal relationships)
• Fauxcellarm and ringxiety (thinking your phone is ringing when it’s not)
• Cyberchondria (researching diseases online and then suspecting you have them)

Although I don’t suffer from the first four situations (my cell phone is a dumb phone that is usually left on the kitchen counter, and sometimes forgotten in a coat pocket), I will admit that I have suffered from cyberchondria more than once in recent years. I am also very thankful that the ability to research symptoms and illnesses on the Internet did not exist when my kids were young!