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Got FOMO? You May Be Less Satisfied With Life, Study Finds

Posted 05.15.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Fear of Missing Out Life Dissatisfaction, Fomo Life Dissatisfaction, Video, Fear of Missing Out Life Satisfaction, Fomo Life Satisfaction, Fomo, Healthy Living News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/14/2013 02:19 PM EDT on LiveScience Worried that everyone else is doing something ...

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How To Handle FOMO At The Office

Posted 03.22.2013 | Women
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Career Fomo, Work Problems, Career & Money, Fomo, Work Advice, Career Problems, Career Advice, Office Fomo, Work Fear of Missing Out, Work Fomo, Women News

Lynze Wardle Lenio | The Daily Muse FOMO. Even if you haven’t heard of it, you’ve definitely experienced it. That sinking feeling in your stoma...

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8 Ways To Avoid Social Media Stress

Posted 02.23.2013 | Teen
Read More: Online Safety, Instagram, Facebook Depression, Online Harassment, Social Networking, Less Stress More Living, Social Media Stress, Facebook, Tumblr, Social Media, Fomo, Cyberbullying, Teens Twitter, Social Media Drama, Social Media Anxiety, Teens Facebook, Teen News

Updating and browsing your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram accounts probably makes up a huge chunk of the time you spend online -- and let's b...

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'In Order To Change The World, I Must First Go To Bed'

Simone N. Sneed | Posted 04.23.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fear of Missing Out FOMO, Sleep Health, Fomo, Sleep Tips, Sleep and Stress, Sleep, Sleep Schedule, Ways to Sleep Better, Sleeping Problems, Sleep Disorders, Fear of Missing Out, Sleep Better, Sleep Problems, How to Sleep Better, Sleep and Health, Sleeping, Healthy Living News
Simone N. Sneed

When I was a child, I hated to go to bed. The fear of missing out (FOMO) was so excruciatingly overwhelming that I would stay awake until my eyes hurt. I would love to say that I grew up and got over this, but truth be told, it just got worse.

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You Are a Flake

Rachel Ryan | Posted 04.07.2013 | Women
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Rescheduling, Social Media, Multitasking, 20-Somethings, Flaking Out, Fomo, Canceling Plans, Flakiness, Flaking, Texting, Women News
Rachel Ryan

Thanks to cell phones and social media -- making both plans and people immediately accessible or disposable -- we are groomed to become commitment-phobic flakes. Which, trust me, is a disposition that threatens much more than your commitment to dinner plans...

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Three Ways to Avoid Facebook Induced FOMO

Adam Smiley Poswolsky | Posted 03.19.2013 | Technology
Read More: Instagram, Fear of Missing Out, Fomo, Facebook, Instagram Envy, Envy, Facebook Envy, Technology News
Adam Smiley Poswolsky

Instead of comparing yourself to others, and feeling jealous on Facebook every time someone is doing something cooler than you are, self-acceptance will give you the confidence to love who you are and position you to support your friends, who in return, will carry you to extraordinary new heights.

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14 Things We've Stopped Worrying About -- And You Should Too

The Huffington Post | Nina Bahadur | Posted 12.18.2012 | Women
Read More: Stress, Stopped Caring About, I Don't Care About, Importance, Fomo, Appearance, Worrying, Things We Don't Care About, Anxiety, List, Life, Women News

With every passing season, year, spate of "character building experiences," there are things we've just stop worrying about. Maybe it's due to accumul...

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10 Ways To Make Your Online Time Stress-Free

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.10.2012 | Teen
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Stress Management, Stress, Facebook Privacy Settings, Fomo, Twitter, Cyberbullying, Less Stress More Living, Safe Passwords, Stress Relief, Coping With Stress, Facebook, Stress Reduction, Tumblr, Teen News

Full disclosure: We love the interwebs here at HuffPost Teen. Between the amazingly creative work you are sharing on Tumblr, the social media empires ...

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The Secret to Helping Your Kids Study Without Distractions

Dr. Larry Rosen | Posted 01.09.2013 | Parents
Read More: Studying, Kids and Technology, Fear of Missing Out, Social Media, Parents-Families-Tech, Study Tips, Fomo, Teens and Facebook, Teens and Social Media, Attention Span, Technology and Kids, Facebook, Technology, Short-Attention-Spans, Homework, Parents News
Dr. Larry Rosen

Our study found that if a student checked Facebook just once during the 15-minute study period, he or she had a lower GPA.

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FOMO: Affliction, or Lust for Life?

Julie Danis | Posted 12.02.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Boomers and Technology, Sherry Turkle, Fifty News, Boomers, Technology, Fomo, The Fear of Never Being Able to Retire, Bucket List, Fonbatr, Goals, Fifty News
Julie Danis

FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is quite different from FONBATR, the Fear of Never Being Able to Retire, which is an affliction many of the 50-plus-year-olds attending this ideas festival/policy-wonk conference are experiencing. But it doesn't mean we don't experience FOMO, too.

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FOMO Trumps FOPL With American Adults

Jeffrey Tinsley | Posted 09.22.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Social Media, Twitter, Social Media Addiction, Fomo, Facebook Addiction, Millennials Fomo, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Social Media Networks, Los Angeles News
Jeffrey Tinsley

While people may be averse to a loss of privacy, they are even more averse to being left on the sidelines while the rest of their network happily rides off into the social sunset, tweeting and sharing along the way

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It's a Connected World

Patrick Mott | Posted 11.17.2012 | Teen
Read More: Social Media, Social Media Addiction, Fomo, Internet Addiction, Twitter Addiction, Unplug and Recharge, Disconnecting, Technology, Icloud Outage, Teen News
Patrick Mott

We all need to disconnect sometimes, even when we think we don't. So next time you're on vacation and you see a beautiful ocean, enjoy it -- don't Instagram it.

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What Does It Mean To DTR? College Slang 101

| Posted 08.08.2012 | Teen
Read More: Freshman 15, University, Keg Stand, College Dictionary, Fomo, College Lingo, College Slang, Teen College BTS, Her Campus, Teen News

By Kelsey Mulvey If the newfound freedom isn’t enough to make your head spin, you'll soon discover that it’s like college students speak a diff...

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Uh-Oh: FOMO! Do YOU Have The Fear Of Missing Out? (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Stress, Fear of Missing Out, Fear, Fomo, Freedom, Slideexpand, Anxiety, Peace, Arianna Huffington, Becoming-Fearless, Healthy Living News

Seems like FOMO -- aka the Fear Of Missing Out -- is everywhere these days. Trend expert Faith Popcorn just wrote about it over on HuffPost Media, poi...

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FOMO: The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Missing Out

Faith Popcorn | Posted 09.15.2012 | Media
Read More: Millennial Generation, Fomo, Social Networking, Fear of Missing Out, Branding, Social Media Marketing, Media News
Faith Popcorn

FOMO -- the "Fear Of Missing Out" -- is the insidious feeling that other people are getting more from life than you are. The acronym has been the focus of increasing attention, but the phenomenon is as old as Adam (who ate the apple, after all, out of fear of what he'd miss if he didn't).

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SXSW 2012 Party Map

Posted 03.10.2012 | Home
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You know that feeling you get when you had no clue the party of the month happened last night, two blocks from your house, and you somehow missed out ...

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Fear of Missing Out

Kinne Chapin | Posted 05.02.2012 | College
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Fomo, Fomo Millenials, Millenials Fomo, College News
Kinne Chapin

Next time you feel ill-equipped for an evening out, shut out the FOMO in your head and listen to reason. Turn off your phone, shut your computer, and do something purely for yourself without checking to see what your friends are doing without you.

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The Psychology Behind The 'Fear Of Missing Out'

Tijana Milosevic | Posted 04.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Fomo, International News, New Media, Media, Culture, Mental Health, Social Media Health, Emotional Wellness, Unplug and Recharge, Emotional Intelligence, Social Media Anxiety, Social Media and Anxiety, Syria, Healthy Living News
Tijana Milosevic

Urban Dictionary says that FOMO stands for "the fear that if you miss a party or an event you will miss out on something great." As in: "I can't decide if I should go out tonight, but I know that if I don't, I'll get a chronic FOMO."

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The Roaring Twenties: No FOMO

Stefanie Lee | Posted 01.21.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Fear of Missing Out, Millenial Generation, Holiday Parties, Fomo, Twenty-Something Advice, Twenty-Something Problems, Twenty Something, Millennials Fomo, San Francisco News
Stefanie Lee

While I consider myself dependable, I'm definitely guilty of succumbing to this annoying generational affliction. It's FOMO, better known as Fear of Missing Out, and it's spreading like the plague.

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The Fleecing of Generation Y

Lila Kalick | Posted 02.25.2013 | Arts
Read More: Millennials in the Workplace, Generation Y at Work, Generation Y Jobs, Millennial Generation, Millenials, Generation Y, Generation Y Economy, Generation Y Patriotism, Fomo, Arts News
Lila Kalick

Most of the stuff floating around in the ether about who millennials are and what we will become is the byproduct of older generations' curiosity, concern and fear for our future. We've been letting them write the history of our future and there isn't anything funny about it.

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Eco Etiquette: A Year Without BlackBerry

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 06.19.2011 | Green
Read More: Blackberry, Net Generation, Fomo, Iphone Addiction, Green Advice, Mother Nature, Blackberry Addiction, Green Living, Earth Day, Technology Addiction, Earth Day 2011, Eco Etiquette, Environmental Generational Amnesia, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I've received a lot of qu...

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FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out

Annie Stamell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Natalie Portman, Natalie Portman Black Swan, Black Swan, Facebook, Altoids, Justin Bieber, Fomo, Comedy News
Annie Stamell

FOMO is running rampant in the streets of this fine nation. From the overcrowded hallways of middle schools in Kansas to the minimalist lobbies of chic Hollywood talent agencies -- FOMO is destroying our good judgment.

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