Do you suffer from FOMO? That’s an acronym fueled by Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. It stands for “fear of missing out.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “FOMO”
Greg, I have a new to me word you probably already know.
Oh, okay.
Sure.
Let’s hear it.
FOMO.
FOMO.
Yeah.
Fear of missing out.
Yes.
I think that’s a great acronym.
That was on my words of the year list.
Oh, was it?
Yeah.
Katarina Fake, who was one of the founders of the photo site Flickr, had a great blog post about fear of missing out and how a lot of the complaints that people make about things like Facebook and Twitter when they come up with a new user interface, it’s just because somebody didn’t tell them.
They didn’t know.
And when people sign up for all these new services, they sign up because, like, I better get my name in there because in case this turns out to be hot, I’ll already have a login.
FOMO, fear of missing out.
Yeah.
Well, I think it also applies just to using Facebook and Twitter because you don’t want to miss something.
Yeah.
I’m embarrassed at how many times I check it a day.
Yeah.
Why didn’t you invite me?
Well, it was on Facebook, and you’re not.
You missed out, right?
If you were missing out.
You M.O.ed, yeah.
You M.O.ed.
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