Fear of missing out (Topical Term)

Work cat: McGinnis, Patrick J. Fear of missing out, 2020: chap. 1 (Do you ever get stressed out when you come across those delightful (read: highly selective, filtered, and cropped) photos posted by friends, family, and celebrities to your social media feed? As you scroll, you may notice that a feeling starts to build within you, perhaps best understood as a sense of anxiety. While you're playing with your phone, it occurs to you that all of these people are living lives that are far more interesting, exciting, successful, and, frankly, Instagramable than yours. This feeling is called FOMO, short for Fear of Missing Out, and its effects are widespread. FOMO is not limited to social media. It causes stress, insecurity, jealousy, and even depression. It also imperils your success at work, tempts you to make speculative investments, and compels business leaders, from CEOs to start-up founders, to chase after the wrong strategies and squander precious resources) (DLC)2019053664

The New York Times WWW site, viewed November 22, 2019 (My problem is emblematic of the digital era. It's known as FOMO, or "fear of missing out," and refers to the blend of anxiety, inadequacy and irritation that can flare up while skimming social media like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram.) https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/business/10ping.html

Boston Magazine WWW site, viewed November 22, 2019 (The first paper on the Fear of Missing Out--FOMO, the ailment of our cultural moment--was written back in the year 2000 by a marketing strategist named Dan Herman, but the concept took many years to gestate...Studies estimate that around 70 percent of all adults in developed countries suffer from the creepy, sometimes all-consuming feeling that something's happening and they're not a part of it.) https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/07/29/fomo-history/

Merriam-Webster dictionary online, Feb. 19, 2020 (FOMO [noun (informal)]; definition: fear of missing out : fear of not being included in something (such as an interesting or enjoyable activity) that others are experiencing)

Elhai, J.D. Fear of missing out predicts repeated measurements of greater negative affect using experience sampling methodology; in Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020 Feb 1, vol. 262; viewed via PubMed, Feb. 19, 2020 Abstract (Fear of missing out (FOMO) has been increasingly researched recently, especially in relation to negative affectivity constructs)