fomo, finally over missing out

For sometime now I have been experiencing a new FOMO. It’s on some of the social/networking platforms I begrudgingly continue to use. It’s the ones I have since left. And even some of the social communities that are Slack channels. I am discovering a new FOMO, finally over missing out.

Be it a day, a few days, a week or more. If I go offline and don’t check those spaces, well when I get back, it just seems like it’s “nothing new”.

Some may say, well, you can fix that by following the “right” people. Well, I disagree having gone that route. It’s not always the people or the bubbles that exist, it’s the algorithms, the AI slop, and other nefarious controls and interjections.

And don’t even get me started on “engagement”.

So now I’m enjoying my FOMO and am finding it in other areas of my life and business as well.

note: this all occurred to me after reading a post on X from my friend Mario Peshev