So, I was over at Nasim's house on Saturday night with Alison, Emily, and Roy and Emily started talking about "FOMO". I had never heard of it. It is a syndrome called the "fear of missing out". For instance, someone who is at one dinner party but can't stop thinking about what they are missing at another party they were invited to across town. It is that person that goes to literally everything they are invited to because they have FOMO!
Tonight, I decided just to google it and the amount of coverage on it is unbelievable. A NYTimes article here talks about how social media is breeding FOMO. Or this ABC story on being a slave to FOMO. Apparently, this is a new syndrome and it is being provoked and brought about by the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
Interesting reading if say, you're caught in a rain storm and can't leave the house...
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