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“Let’s stay up all night Friday night!”
“Why not. YOLO!”
It’s a term young people have latched onto in the last year, expressing exactly what the acronym says, “You only live once.” But as popular as YOLO is (I’ve written about YOLO before), this attitude might not be quite as prominent as FOMO, the “Fear Of Missing Out.” Because, in today’s world of hyper-connection… no one wants to be the last one to know.
College Humor captured this phenomenon well in this hilarious YouTube video I’ll be showing to student leaders in my workshops about technology at the SLC2013 conventions.
We’ll probably be seeing more of these. A few other funny FOMO videos have surfaced already.
This phenomena goes beyond the desire for social interaction. Young people just want Continue reading “From YOLO to FOMO”
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