FOMO

fomo FoMO English Alternative forms en FoMO Etymology Coined c. 2004 in the US by Patrick James McGinnis, in the same article as en FOBO. Pronunciation en /ˈfoʊmoʊ/ GA en /ˈfəʊməʊ/ RP en En-us-FOMO.oga US en əʊməʊ 2 Noun - en fear of missing out. en JOMO en FOBO en 2004 May 10 http://www.harbus.org/2004/social-theory-at-hbs-2749/ Social Theory at HBS: McGinnis' Two FOs The Harbus July 25, 2018 June 25, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180625002827/http://www.harbus.org/2004/social-theory-at-hbs-2749/ 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. en 2010 Charlie Taylor Divas & Door Slammers: The Secret to Having a Better Behaved Teenager http://books.google.com/books?id=OdrTvFOx0CUC&pg=PA197&dq=%22because+of+fomo%22 197 Vermillion 2010 9780091924119 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. en Jenna Worthham Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It’s Your Facebook Wall http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/business/10ping.html?_r=0 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250719221828/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/business/10ping.html?_r=0 19 July 2025 en 2013 Daniel Reimold Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age http://books.google.com/books?id=JCeeaMInhB8C&pg=PT328&dq=%22fomo%22 Routledge 2013 9780415634663 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." en Verb + +,~-ing +,~'d en intransitive To experience en FOMO#Noun the fear of missing out; to act on one's FOMO, often impulsively en :into<q:often>. en 2024 August Andrew R. Chow Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of FTX's Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire Total Rug 15 New York, N.Y. w:Simon & Schuster 9781668038161 113 https://books.google.com/books?id=A-bsEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA113 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. Descendants es fomo 1 Further reading fear of missing out Anagrams en fmoo foom mofo moof oomf en Emotions