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YEŞiLAY
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SPRING 2015
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When you wake up in the morning,
the first thing you do is to grab your
phone and check your e-mails,
Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Then you check what are shared on
Instagram and who made a check
in on Foursquare. It is not only the
morning, you repeat checking also in
the afternoon, evening and night. Your
chats are tasteless due to your smart
phone, your sleeps are disrupted by
the thought that “what is going on
while I ammissing?” Sounds familiar?
We do not want to scare you, but
you might be suffering from FOMO,
or “Fear of Missing Out.” In recent
months, many news reports about
this case have been released on
prestigious media outlets including
The Telegraph andThe New York
Times. According to Zeynep Sat, a
senior psychologist fromBehavioral
Sciences Institute, the constant desire
to know about what others are doing
is the most distinguishing mark of this
newly-named condition. American
Psychiatric Association has already
started to research this increasingly
spreading phenomenon.
According to a news report released
by Mashable, 56 percent of the social
media users have already fallen victim
to this disease, whether they are
If you cannot
disconnect yourself
from cyber world, your
works are disrupted
for that reason and
your family and friends
say “enough” to you,
you might be suffering
from FOMO.
A brand newphobia:
“Fear of missing out while offline”
Fomo
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