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FOMO - "Fear of Missing Out" and Facebook Deactivation

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Originally published at Viewspaper Few days back, I got this below forward message in whats app and it got me thinking. Actually it got me in a deep self introspection mode. "Do you know FOMO? Psychologists coined this term recently... It is the feeling that some one else is having more fun or doing something better than you.This fear is often aroused by seeing exciting posts on social media of what other people do!" FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out Every word in the above forward message stands true. It stood so true for me that I had to deactivate my Facebook account. In the crowded social network with millions of updates per day, I am sure no one would have noticed that I was missing from there. Other than a couple of friends who actually would have noticed due to missing tagged pics or some posts rest all stayed oblivious to the fact that I was Poof from face book. Even my blog gets unnoticed with out FB. No FB means no readers , well almost no readers in my case. That...