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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 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.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Classic FOMO to have FOMO about the meaning of FOMO.

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 Always has been......

[–] Subscript5676@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 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.

[–] Master@lemm.ee 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.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

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