Do you suffer from 'FOMO'?

Posted: April 14, 2011 1:00 am Eastern
Phil Elmore © 2011

Is your computer laughing at you? Is your smartphone taunting you? Do you feel worthless, inadequate or simply intimidated by the things you see when you read your friends' online status updates?

Previously in Technocracy, I condemned the nation of mental weaklings we are becoming:

• Do you become despondent when someone you barely know "unfriends" you on a social media site like Facebook? 
• Do you weep when you realize you have fewer "followers" on Twitter than you did the day before? 
• Do you experience feelings of social withdrawal, loneliness and even suicide when a complete stranger leaves a nasty comment on one of your YouTube videos? 
• Are you a wilting, hind-wringing, self-absorbed pansy?

The New York Times' Jenna Wortham has given a name to our collective, oversensitive, hyper-connected pain: Fear Of Missing Out, or "FOMO."  FULL STORY