FOMO

alternative FoMO

1. abbreviationacronymuncountableAcronym of fear of missing out.

   Often, because of FOMO, they are reluctant to do these things on their own, but if you can get their friends involved as well, the resistance disappears.

   2010, Charlie Taylor, Divas & Door Slammers: The Secret to Having a Better Behaved Teenager, Vermillion, published 2010, →ISBN, page 197

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   In this state of social flux, FOMO, or Fear Of Missing Out, weighs heavily on the psyche. ... Notice that as a person becomes more and more FOMO, the energy needed to maintain such an active social life is tremendous.

   2004 May 10, “Social Theory at HBS: McGinnis' Two FOs”, in The Harbus, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2018

   On those occasions, she said, her knee-jerk reaction is often to post an account of a cool thing she has done, or to upload a particularly fun picture from her weekend. This may make her feel better — but it can generate FOMO in another unsuspecting person.

   2011 April 9, Jenna Worthham, “Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It’s Your Facebook Wall”, in The New York Times

   In a Huffington Post write-up last spring, a Georgetown University student confirmed FOMO "is a widespread problem on college campuses … Even when we'd rather catch up on sleep or melt our brain with some reality television, we feel compelled to seek bigger and better things from our weekend. We fear that if we don't partake in every Saturday night's fever, something truly amazing will happen, leaving us hopelessly behind."

   2013, Daniel Reimold, Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age, Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN

   Antonyms: JOMO

present singular third person FOMOs · participle present FOMOing · participle present FOMO-ing · participle past FOMOed · past FOMOed · participle past FOMO'd · past FOMO'd · alternative FoMO

1. intransitiveTo experience FOMO (“the fear of missing out”); to act on one's FOMO, often impulsively [(often) with into].

   Within hours of selling out, AfroDroids NFTs started getting flipped on OpenSea for thousands of dollars, with new investors FOMO-ing into the project in case it became the newest PFP project to go to the moon.

   2024 August, Andrew R. Chow, “Total Rug” (chapter 15), in Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of FTX's Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 113

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of FOMO.