Fear Of Missing Out Essay

While I have gained so much knowledge about the fear of missing out and how Denison students discuss and work to avoid this phenomenon, we still encounter this on a large basis, and I have worked to reframe my overall research question to ask how Denison students discuss and work to avoid the fear of missing out through extensive interaction? Furthermore, how do the differences in our definitions and interpretations of FOMO implicate our relationships with others? My experiential observations and interpretations are rooted in the texts that we have read and discussed throughout the semester, even when the fear of missing out is not closely discussed in any of them. My research offers a unique perspective on different ideas that these scholars have discussed, but as some of these texts are old, the …show more content…
This interpretation suggests that by doing this, we are missing out on interpersonal connections and we do not have time to interact in-person anymore. The idea that we do not have time anymore comments on the interpretation of fear by Svendsen (2007) that it is a “byproduct of luxury” (p. 20). As Denison students, we have the luxury of choosing where and when to spend our time, but as the school is small, one participant noted that we are so busy (especially as first semester seniors) and we have to balance our time to make sure we are having in-person interactions with friends. The luxury comes into the equation when we have so many choices about how to spend our time, and we fear that we are missing out on things based on our luxury of choice. Our luxury of choice comes with entitlement to always being in touch with people through technology, and we then think about the fear of missing out more than we need to be thinking about