Blog #17: Fear of missing out on social media!

Image source

Fear of missing out - Don't want to be out

Fear of missing out is a symptom that happens when people feel scared of being left behind or alone. This appeared since the dawn of time when people lived together as a pack or a punch until now, in this modern life.

The life is developing fast, there are so many kinds of social media. Thus, people also have so many ways to keep in touch with each other and to update information daily easily. People enjoy them much and they consider social network sites as their private worlds. They interact with social network sites every single hour, even every single second, every day by posting their daily activities and their feelings.

It seems that they can't live without a smartphone on hands and their day would not complete without a new status posting on their social pages. Of course, some of them use social media just to read some pieces of random news. They just want to keep themselves updated.

All above activities are originated from the fear of missing out. Few of us have the scare of being out of date the information. Others are scared of being forgotten - being out of sight, out of minds.

But I must say that every coin has two sides. The more you scare, the more you get addicted to it. You keep being present all the time until some time you vanish, you feel you have lost something, you wonder how the world is going on, what others are doing, what do they feel without you.

It seems that they start to forget you. You are so disappointed and you are back again. Yep! You see! It is a circulation without the point to stop unless you find a solution to it on your own.

Image source

Fear of missing out - Stuck in the Fear of being absent

Moreover, there is another problem I must mention is that you are stuck in the holes you dig up. Every day you keep doing updated on your social pages both the good news and the bad news, both when you feel happy and when you feel sad, both the negative information and the passive one. You don't know that all that information would last long and would be recalled some days.

In most of cases, this would not be the big problem. But with some other special circumstance like you had an old relationship, you post all sweet things between both of you, but then you got broken, and after that suddenly those images ould appear again after many years and the recent lover saw them. How would he feel?

As a human being, we improve ourselves every day, both mentally and physically. And as a matter of life, to forget and to be forgotten is one way for us to develop, to go straightly forward

Your social pages are just a very small part of your life. Your existing is your real life. It is your family, your real love actions to others, your real communication. Don't be scared of being out on social media. Instead, you should be afraid of being absent in your real life

Joining in social network sites is so fun and quite helpful. It is also a trend for now. But to control it to protect yourself and to get more help is very necessary. Make sure that you use the social network sites in a smart way. Thus, it can bring the whole world to you.