F.O.M.O , age and gender
FOMO, Age, and Gender
FOMO can be experienced by people of all ages, several studies have found. One study in the Psychiatry Research journal found that the fear of missing out was linked to a greater smartphone and social media usage and that this link was not associated with age or gender.3
The research also found that both social media use and "problematic" smartphone usage was linked with a greater experience of FOMO. Smartphone usages was related to fears of negative and even positive evaluations by others as well as linked to negative effects on mood.
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Although Stoicism was founded more than 2000 years ago, there is no doubt that its core principles and ideas can help people of all kinds that are in different stages of their lives, especially in this day and age where social media usage and depression/anxiety levels are seeing all time highs.
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