When FOMO Meets JOMO

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Caterina Fake (the person who popularized the term "FOMO") talks with Anil Dash (the person who coined the term "JOMO"). Turns out, they're good friends.

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0:00.0	FOMO, fear of missing out, and the new, cheap year,
0:07.5	JOMO, joy of missing out.
0:10.8	I mean, many of us throw around these acronyms
0:12.8	like they've been around forever, but real actual people
0:16.0	came up with these terms.
0:17.6	And relatively recently, Catarina fake, popularized FOMO,
0:22.9	and her BFF, a Neil Dash, countered with JOMO.
0:27.7	How are you?
0:28.9	Oh, doing well.
0:30.1	It's funny that we would be talking to each other
0:32.8	across the continent while I have this large fuzzy microphone
0:36.7	in my face.
0:40.2	It's note to self, the tech show about being human.
0:44.0	I'm Anou Shemurodi.
0:49.4	Today, when FOMO met JOMO, the two sides of living in a world
0:55.0	where you always know what you're missing,
0:57.9	we bring it all together to hash out how we got here
1:01.2	and where we're going.
1:02.8	And what we can do here in the present
1:05.8	to make living with the internet more about JOMO
1:09.2	and less about FOMO.
1:11.0	FOMO?
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