Talk:Fear of missing out/Archives/2016

Fear of being called out (FoBCO)
This happens in closed social media groups where an individual is under pressure to respond due to the visibility of the responses and thereby the visibility of those who did not respond. This is a fear of getting called out as someone who did not respond. The phenomena in multiple people results in a sudden time bound chain reaction, and is started by one comment from one individual.

An example of the situation is when a person wishes another on their birthday or anniversary on a WhatsApp group. The first wish is followed by a cascade of responses from all the other individuals in the group. Also, if the recipient of the wish responds with an acknowledgement, he or she is under the pressure of responding to all the individuals who expressed their wishes, until everyone has finished wishing. Another example is in 'Liking' a Facebook post. The fear of being noticed if one does not 'Like' a person's post and being called out for not liking (not literally), is FobCO. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shalinis (talk • contribs) 23:31, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Category?
I'd suggest adding a category to this: something to do with computers, internet slang, because both the phenomenon of seeing what others are doing, and having that cause social anxiety, and the term itself being shortened to an acronym seem to me to be bound up with the Internet. I'm working on tracking down good sources to document the connection. Thoughts? 17:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatienceFortitude (talk • contribs)

Irony
Is this a real thing or has it been invented ironically? The entry is full of unsupported statements written in a pseudy way.

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