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From the editorial team at curiosity.com, I'm Cody Goff.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you'll learn about the real effects of FOMO and how you can measure your fear of missing out, the story of a man who put his head inside

a particle accelerator and survived, and a Japanese island with more cats than people.

Plus, let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning curiosity daily.

Chances are, especially if you spend any time on social media, you've had to deal with FOMO.

That stands for fear of missing out, and yes, it's a real word.

Oxford dictionaries edited more than five years ago.

Well, today we're going to get into the real psychological impact of FOMO

and give you a resource to help you figure out how bad FOMO is in your life.

Is this big for you Ashley?

Not really. I feel like as I get older I start to care less about what everybody else is doing

and kind of focusing on my own thing.

Same. I never scroll down Facebook anymore.

Yeah, yeah, Instagram I feel like is a big FOMO source and it's not it's not a source I go to.

I'm not on Instagram Scroller either.

Yeah. I'm just getting old. I'm out of touch. I think we might be getting out of touch and old, yeah. Or are we burned out on it?

Could be. I mean, yeah, I'm so busy that like I do not have the mental capacity to pay attention to what other people are doing.

There's that too.

Well, FOMO is not just a throwaway phrase for how you feel when you're scrolling through

Instagram and wishing you were somewhere else.

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