Do you feel like you're missing something when you miss an event that you couldn't go to at the last minute? Are you left wondering when you are away from the agenda? Has it become a habit to update your Instagram account frequently during the day? Then you may have "FoMO".
FoMO, (Fear of Missing Out) in Turkish, "Fear of Missing Out" (FoMO) is a type of social anxiety that arises from the anxiety of missing out on fun when one is away from certain environments. . This term has become a real phenomenon with today's research. Especially the development of technology and the increase in the prevalence of social media use have caused an increasing effect on this anxiety. Being informed about the latest updates, the desire to catch up with the latest trends, the attraction of the new, give us the urge to refresh the page, and this small action, which becomes a habit over time, can cause social anxiety. Technology tools such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare promise social interaction and adequate social bonding (Ellison, Steinfield & Lampe, 2007).
Fear of Missing Out (FFT) has become a prominent and problematic internet-social media issue in recent years. It is a concept related to usage. DST, which is defined as an anxiety that occurs especially in young individuals when social media cannot be used, has been found to negatively affect well-being in studies (Metin, Pehlivan & Tarhan, 2017). Symptoms of FoMO are the following actions:
- The desire to constantly enter social media
- The desire to constantly share,
- Following a person, page or group and socializing desire to spend more than 1 hour a day on media.
If you have these symptoms, we can talk about the presence of FoMO. However, FoMO is not a disease. It is a condition named for the fear of missing out.
So how can we deal with this situation? There may be many individual factors that cause FoMO to occur. A person's dissatisfaction and feeling unhappy may lead to increased social media and phone use. In this case, getting to the source of the problem is It will help us a lot in terms of understanding the problem.
Another factor may be related to where we mostly focus our attention. Being constantly aware of other people's lives can put us in a dilemma about the quality of our own life. While everyone shows how happy they are in the stories they share, we may feel inadequate. However, the truth is not like this. We should not forget that everyone has ups and downs in their lives, and their social media profile gives very little information about the person. If we direct our attention to the things we have, our family, the judgments and beauties we value, seeing the latest updates will no longer be such an important thing. The most important thing is to be able to recognize the existence of FoMO.
The high frequency of accessing Social Media is sometimes not noticed by people and/or is considered normal. At this point, if we act objectively and observe that we are suffering from this situation, it would be healthy to get help from relevant experts. Although DDH seems to be a minor problem today, it may take its place among the diseases that may occur due to technology in the future or may cause an existing problem to grow (anxiety, depression, etc.). Early precautions and awareness will prevent problems from progressing.
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