Modern Terminology

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Barb

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!

Take Ten Minutes…

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Barb

…to open your eyes to how you’ve been manipulated. (Teens can benefit from this, too!)

Public Schools Continue to Fail

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Barb

Here’s more evidence that American children are stagnating in school. But it’s not politically correct to admit that public schools continue to fail at educating children. What a shame.

One More Reason to Avoid F-Book

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Barb

I don’t like Facebook, or F-Book, as I call it. Aside from the many negatives that out-of-control social media use encourages, F-Book in particular is very biased. Case in point: this Christian homeschooling mom posted some Bible verses on her Facebook and found her account suspended.

I realize that F-Book allows you to reach more people than you could otherwise, but I just can’t abide anti-Christian or anti-conservative censorship. In fact, that’s why I left Twitter despite having over 3000 followers.