Talk:Nomophobia

Missing word in a sentence?

I'm not a native english speaker, I might be missing some subtlety of language here, but it seems to me that the sentence "[...] are more likely to develop mobile phone dependency because they may be going through a self-identity, self-esteem, and social identity." (the last sentence of paragraph 2 in point 1.1) is missing a word in the end. Crisis? Phase? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpmurray (talk • contribs) 13:33, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Opinion on existence of this page

The sheer existence of this page is abysmal. It's unbelievable that in the English-speaking world something reaches the rank of "encyclopaedic entry" whenever American media take a dump in the public space's toilet. English Wikipedia suffers from a multiplication of pages due to the obsession for cataloguing literally anything... Porn included. This makes Wikipedia suffer from "presentism" and it looks more like an almanac than a scientific endeavour. Moreover, the term is ill-chosen. A false neologism at best, which goes against the use of the "noms" affix in most word languages (including English). Now, this entry doesn't need clarification; it needs to be deleted. Otherwise we will spend the next 20 Wikipedia years cataloguing bullshit published on the Guardian or Daily Telegraph just because journalist had nothing to do and psychologists needed some publicity. Fortunately there are Wikipedia projects that are slightly stricter with their terms of inclusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.90.80.133 (talk) 18:19, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Nomo - phobia, Fear of Nomos, Fear of the Law

Nomophobia is a 1912 term. It means fear of nomos-law. It is based on the Greek word nomos which means law. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.87.25.121 (talk) 19:39, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Faulty neologism!

I know that people are quite free to call things whatever they like, but 'nomophobia' is positively misleading. To anyone with any etymological understanding, 'nomophobia' would instantly suggest "a fear of laws", or "a fear of the law": see Nomos.

If you're going to dignify such matters with a Greek suffix, then it behoves you, I think, to be careful about what the rest of the word would mean in Greek! Kay Dekker (talk) 20:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

While you are right, wikipedia did not invent the neologism. Wikipedia only reports what is published. Wikipedia also does not publish opinions of wikipedians, however correct, see "no original research" policy. The correct wikipedia way is to find the info who invented the term and what was their explanation of the naming. - 7-bubёn >t 20:36, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, I do know that, but my etymology gland would have burst if I hadn't had a little rant about it :) I'm currently trying to find the original information from YouGov - none of the links actually point to it, alas; I'll put the information that I find on the page. Kay Dekker (talk) 20:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

There's absolutely nothing available on the YouGov web site about this study, unfortunately, so I'm drawing a blank on finding an official explanation of the derivation of the term.

On the other hand, looking through the list of phobias with articles on WP, there are plenty of instances of etymologies without supporting references to, say, dictionaries, so is it unreasonable to have something of the sort here, particularly given how misleading it is? Kay Dekker (talk) 20:51, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Gess what: I am an etymology freak as well :-). For this particular case IMHO the most probable explanation is related to its negating definition: it is unusual phobia in that the cause of fear is not a something, but absence of something. Hence "nomophobia" is "no-mobile-phone phobia" - 7-bubёn >t 00:39, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Now guess what more: once I figured it out, it was a matter of split second to find a confirmation in google. :-) Now it remains a job to nail down who uttered it first. - 7-bubёn >t 00:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

I agree - the YouGov data cited is not in the public domain and shouldn't be linked to - the stats mentioned sound a bit far-fetched too (80% women and 20% men are nomophobic?!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.33.27.190 (talk) 08:33, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

T-Mobophopia???

The article should statee who calls this "T-Mobophopia" and why. 109.67.203.144 (talk) 17:55, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

It was vandalism, and I have removed it. DuncanHill (talk) 22:05, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

2008 or 2010?

Article says name was coined in 2010 study but sources cite a 2008 article with the same term. Which one is it? 181.29.108.191 (talk) 21:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

(Untitled)

why is it called NOMOphobia? 82.11.228.80 (talk) 03:57, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

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Treatments

The "Treatments" section could just be simplified to "roundhouse kick someone exhibiting this 'phobia' in their pathetic face." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clamum (talk • contribs) 21:07, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Low battery anxiety

I have created this as a redirect to this article. It seems to be a popular topic (lots of search results). ~Kvng (talk) 18:12, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Article Ought To Be Rewritten

Forgive the somewhat insulting way I'll depict this, but the wording of almost every paragraph in this article reads like some informal essay you'd see a high school student produce. I hardly wish to quote every example of poor writing but the one that sticks out to me is "This stuff hits harder for teens"...it does not reflect the writing style of an adequate Wikipedia article.

I would recommend a complete rewrite of it at this point. I've seen other mentions of the validity of having Nomophobia as an article, and while there's certainly some truth in it perhaps being better merged into one overarching article on technological dependence (or at least splitting the more general aspect of the fear of not having a mobile phone and the more clinical, between an article on technological dependence and another on nomophobia), what is most damning is the current state of the content within the article itself. I'm surprised this hasn't been caught for years, to be honest.

Does anyone want to have a crack at rewriting some parts of it to better reflect the research on the topic? I'll have a crack at some parts over the next week if possible. ~2026-42043-76 (talk) 09:26, 29 July 2026 (UTC)