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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Fear of missing out" in case anybody was debating if its worth clicking on the headline just to find out what the fuck FOMO is. Or maybe I'm just stupid.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Classic FOMO to have FOMO about the meaning of FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Sturgist 5 points 1 month ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 Always has been......

[–] Subscript5676 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Urban Dictionary is useful for lots of modern abbreviations or Internet lingo

[–] KingOfTheCouch 16 points 1 month ago

This one is well established and old enough that it has it's own wikipedia article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call you stupid because there's always someone who doesn't know something, but this one is surprising to me. I thought FOMO was a pretty well established acronym.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe I was just one of the lucky 10.000 then :-) Also, non native speaker, so I guess there is that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its wild to me that someone here on lemmy didnt know what fomo was. It feels like fomo has invade my life for most of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

And 34 upvotes seem to indicate I wasn't the only one. Well, now we know.