Citations:FOMO

Initialism: "fear of missing out"

 * 2008, Philip Delves Broughton, Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School, The Penguin Press (2008), ISBN 9781436258234, unnumbered page:
 * And then there was FOMO, fear of missing out. The trick to HBS, the administration kept telling us, was not succumbing to FOMO. You had to choose exactly what you wanted to do and do it without fretting about what else was going on.
 * 2010, Charlie Taylor, Divas & Door Slammers: The Secret to Having a Better Behaved Teenager, Vermillion (2010), ISBN 9780091924119, page 197:
 * 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.
 * 2011, Jenna Worthham, "Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It’s Your Facebook Wall", The New York Times, 9 April 2011:
 * 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.
 * 2012, Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World, Perigee (2012), ISBN 9780399537691, unnumbered page:
 * Introverts are not immune to FOMO—fear of missing out. Do you suffer FOMO over every invitation? Then you need to set that fear aside and consider the event in a different light.
 * 2013, Daniel Reimold, Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age, Routledge (2013), ISBN 9780415634663, unnumbered page:
 * 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."