FOMO Fueling Teen Social Media Addiction
Checking social media accounts isn't that much different from checking the answering machine or staying near the phone in order not to miss a call in the old days. Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) isn't anything new and teens have always wanted not to be excluded by peers. I recall yelling at my brother to not stay on the phone too long just in case one of my friends called. You could say that I was obsessed with the phone and that I had an acute case of FOMO and this wasn't too many years ago.