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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

Overthink

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Are You Putting Your Friends on Blast in This Episode?

Sally Kohn: I wonder what my own FOMO is a displacement for. Death seems like a good candidate, but there really is something to wanting to be in the center of it all. Some people might react with that feeling of perpetual disappointment and others with a compulsive desire to please others and miss nothing. And maybe others still, which we haven't talked about, could respond to the fear of missing out by becoming reclusive and closing themselves in isolation and resentment. The case of the person who just stays at home angrily looking at their Facebook posts.

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