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FOMO=fear of missing out, for anyone else who is wondering.
by swimfar 10y ago
FOMO=fear of missing out, for anyone else who is wondering.
- ourmandave 10y agoI thought it was F*-Other-Menu-Options.
- hossbeast 10y agoI thought it was For Our Meal Only
- tome 10y agoThanks. I would have needed that explanation last week, but I'm currently experiencing the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon regarding "FOMO".
- zeristor 10y agoIs this becoming the Inception of explanations? I had to look up Baader_Meinhof Phenomenon. "The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards (not to be confused with the recency illusion or selection bias). Colloquially, this illusion is known as the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
- triplesec 10y agoIronically, YOLO can also cause this, for somewhat analogous reasons