Response to: "Google can give you a virtual fever"

This article poses an interesting problem. People are diagnosing themselves of medical conditions using Google. I believe this is something everyone has done, not necessarily to the extreme amount the article discusses, but Googled symptoms to find what could be wrong. I know for me, a few weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with extreme pain near my left kidney. I had no idea what it could be, but I was desperate at 2 in the morning to find a solution to make the pain stop. I Googled what the pain could be and what I should do to make it stop. One site I found said to lay on a heating pad. I immediately went to bed on a heating pad, and I woke up in the morning feeling awesome! I definitely believe in Googling symptoms, just not to the extreme that some people do. It is incredible that people are convincing themselves they have a brain tumor when in actuality it is simply a caffine headache. "Cymbercondria" is an interesting trend that is occuring in today's world. It's something I've never really thought about.