FOMO - the fear of missing out: Bobby Mook at TEDxUNC

Fomo is make us depression and anxiety and other mental health disorders through Social media platforms and also cause of conflicts through on life if we just use it right through our perspective and personal life and professional life and school life through the years I see the impact of the comparison to others life and self improvement through the knowledge and wisdom in My school and my life 🙏😇👦👧👩‍⚕️🏡🏛️🏫🧸🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🦋🤝🐉😞😞😞😞😞😞😞

This helped.

I’m having trouble with emails. There are so many emails and I want to clean my mailbox but I’m afraid I’ll delete something possibly useful but at the same time it’s so discouraging to open and read hundreds of emails just to make sure I’m not missing anything.

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FOMO is making me consider suicide

Watching this before high school graduation

My fomo is to follow every single thought that pop up to know about everything it's kind of perfectionism to be aware of everything and be present everywhere not missing out on single event

Fear of missing out is why so many people are in a tremendous amount of debt.

It's good that I didn't MISS this video 😅

done

Opportunity cost vs cost benefit analysis

Cost benefit (includes intangible benefits such as mood)

Example: gov build a project and have to do a cost benefit analysis that include Inconvienece.

So for ppl with fomo... Do that

Fomo or fear of missed oppotunity

I'm a highschool graduate and currently working as a customer service rep, i'm contented with my job since they are paying me good money. but whenever i scroll my facebook and see my highschool friends achieving their goals, graduating college, own a house and starting to enjoy their life, i felt like i'm missing out.
I'm was not a smart student 😅 my grades were very bad that's why i feel like i'm stuck and i couldn't keep up, nowadays everyone is competitive and you have to join the game or ppl will treat you less

"Understand your fear of missing out and do what makes u happy "😊 I'll live by this quote for the rest of my life

I'm experiencing this rn cause of my studies, I have a really important exam coming up,missing out on events and parties while I see my friends posting all over the social media, but then I remember it's the choice I have made for myself so that I don't regret later on asking myself how hard I could've worked, that statement "what I could've done" I don't want it, I'll do what's needed to be done, I'll give my 100% on what I'm doing rn and enjoy it later

Is not fomo just a sense of lack? It seems it’s rooted in jealously, envy and looking outward for an inner approval. In short, it’s all trauma related.
Confront your trauma and find inner peace, fomo will evaporate.
Peace be with you! 🙏

I always feel FOMO when its the end of the year. All people post their favourite pictures and videos of the year i i just feel like i have been stuck..not living my life to the fullest when in reality when i would stop making myself feel bad about anything i would see that i lived my life.

the solution is easy: QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA

He's talking about FOMO while two phones are in his pockets.

Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤

Im devastated hearing about all my friends playing minecraft without me becouse i dont have a computer☹

FOMO should be treated as a mental disorder.

Addressing the problem is one part. The way he presented it and concluded it is another. Almost broke into tears at the end for the way he concluded it.

You can look at FOMO from the perspective of personal resources allocation. I think I won't be too much off, if I say that every human action requires certain amount of resources to accomplish. Whether it's time, money, emotions, different material goods and items, it doesn't matter, what matters you spending resources to get whatever. And usually when you start feeling FOMO and fantasizing about missed opportunies in your head, you never consider resources that you would have to spend on the thing. You have a feeling that you are missing out on something that was given for free to everyone, expect you. In reality, though, everyone had to sacrifice certain amount of their limited resources to do/get the thing for which you've paid literally nothing.
One more thing. Someone in the comments already has mentioned opportunity costs. Similar to the above calculations of the resources required for making missed out opportunity a real thing, you don't appreciate what you gained due to not participating in the said activity and doing something else instead.
From the looks of it our brain tries to block all rational thinking, whenever we encounder a situation which can potentially cause FOMO feeling.

I got to admit: "Am I significant?" is a fear I have had, sometimes, but feels like an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT fear than the FOMO.
Those two feeling like entirely different, separate, independent fears to me.
Well, break down FOMO into 2 cases;
1. Fear of missing out experiencing things, other things people create
2. Fear of me missing out doing things for other people.
FOMO #2 can be construed as a fear of "Am I significant?"
But FOMO #1 does not have anything to do with how significant I think I am. FOMO #1 is just fear of missing out on fun things.

FOMO for me is usually on a larger scale. As in, I want to be great at all my hobbies, live in lots of different countries, learn multiple languages, keep up with various friendships… I’m not really afraid of missing out on specific moments with people, but rather of not living my life to the fullest. So yes, I like your point about how FOMO pushes us to live and love better. It’s been very effective for me, especially as I’m seeming how life comes in phases. There are already things I planned on doing but lost the chance while I was in that phase… However, balance here is also important. Lately I’ve felt anxious because I’m trying to do too many things and haven’t taken enough time to rest and quiet down my mind. I’m at the point where I think I’ll have to decide what to drop or pull back from, and accept the fact that I will miss out and that’s okay. I need a bit more quality and room to breathe, and less quantity.

🥺❤️ thankyou for making my day a little better

having FOMO honestly sucks and it sucks out my enthusiasm for things I enjoy, just because I am not doing it with others. Though, then again I know my friends wouldn't enjoy it so I can't even invite them...

I enjoyed all of this until his very last statement as he seems to posture us like he is going to give an effective answer (something of substance to FOMO) but instead he just says “Understand your FOMO and do what makes you happy.” This is the most ridiculous statement ever thinking that do what makes you happy is an effective sol’n to the issue…it’s almost like dodging a bullet.

Greetings from a med school at Friday night who is alone at home after all his flatmates went to a big party.. No pain no gain

For everyone who's reading this: You're great however you are. And if you feel like you are not appreciated well enough, your time will come. Remember, every feeling that you are going through will eventually go away. The good but most importantly the bad as well. I wish you the best and have a GREAT day. Because today is the perfect day for a perfect day...

My fomo starts when i open social media and there are posts and stories of people i know who are enjoying their lives and I am sitting at home procrastinating on my work. I can't even go outside because my parents don't allow and i don't have friends . Fomo is literally being jealous that i also need that life and being totally helpless about that feeling.

Thank you. This speech made me appreciate this feeling and inspired to explore life rather than feel like it’s my enemy.

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I just want to have real friends and go out! Is that too much to ask?

Is anyone else watching this while experiencing fomo

me a college student, watching this at 10 pm on a Friday night in my pjs - 🧍🏽‍♀️

I was the youngest by ten years with both parents full time in their jobs, so I can remember feeling this as long as I can remember.

I remember being tired one night as a young child and declining to go to dinner with my mom and sister; I stared at a wall for several minutes and started crying, imagining that they were having a great time while I was home by myself (my dad was asleep)

What’s crazy is that my conscious mind is aware of how ridiculous things like that are, but in those moments I get genuinely heartbroken. It’s terrible because it doesn’t make sense to me.

Hard to realise this video is 7 years old !! The things have only worsen !

I was in my English class, my teacher showed me this, in order to keep me from eating chocolate

This man described the scenario I’m in right now on spot.

Everyone knows what it is , give the solution

i have jomo uwu

All my friends, they all do everything without me

I dealt with a lot of loneliness and it seems that that is connected to FOMO, I just feel like I am missing out on a conversation, lets say, in a group chat because I am not on the phone, and those are rare and I enjoy them, so I am constantly checking my phone or even trying to spark a conversation. It feels sad when no one responds or seems like no one has that same desire to share a conversation. I wonder sometimes do my friends have other friends that they are talking or do they not even talk as much I do and I am just making too much out of it? Life is crazy

Horrible

ok

His speech voice is like a ted talk parody I cant take him seriously -> Edit: I see that my comment was a bit rude. Im keeping it because what I wrote is what I felt but want to underline that I respect this person for going out and giving a public speech about something that I personally struggle with.