2.6. Anxiety about really missing out (FOMO) could be section of SNS Addiction

2.6. Anxiety about really missing out (FOMO) could be section of SNS Addiction

Present research 74,75 has suggested that high engagement in social network is partially as a result of what happens to be known as the ‘fear of really missing out’ (FOMO). FOMO is “a pervasive apprehension that other people could be having worthwhile experiences from where one is absent” 76. Greater quantities of FOMO have now been connected with greater engagement with Twitter, reduced basic mood, reduced health, and reduced life satisfaction, blended feelings when working with social networking, in addition to improper and dangerous SNS use (i.e., in college lectures, as well as whilst driving) 76. Along with this, research 77 suggests that FOMO predicts problematic SNS use and it is connected with social networking addiction 78, as measured having a scale adjusted through the online Addiction Test 79. More