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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

Overthink

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The Rise of Social Media and FOMO

The anxiety about social status that gives rise to FOMO is because you can see what your friends are doing. You have this sense that everybody else is out there doing cool things that you're not cool enough to be doing or even to get invited to. And so I think FOMO really feeds the beast of nothing is ever good enough, which in general is related to the rise of social media.

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