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FOMO Comes From Unhappiness
You’re not feeling so great — whether you realize it or not — and you turn to social media to make you feel better. Only one problem there: it actually makes you feel worse…
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The Problem Is Attention
Looking at social media for happiness is a bad idea. You won’t find it out there. Your happiness is determined by how you allocate your attention. What you attend to drives your behavior and it determines your happiness.
Changing behavior and enhancing happiness is as much abo...
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Gratitude
Try to focus on gratitude to turn your attention so that you appreciate the real world and not turn to Facebook.
The inevitable comparisons to the fake lives on Facebook makes you feel you have less. Contemplating what you are lucky to already possess makes you feel you have more....
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The Facebook Illusion
We all know that Facebook doesn’t provide a very well-rounded picture of people’s lives. It’s more like the cherry-picked perfection version.
People with FOMO have ambivalent feelings toward Facebook. It brings them up when they post about their own carefully ...
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How to Overcome FOMO
- Accept Your Status. Admit that you feel like you might be missing the next awesome thing.
- Realize You’re Looking at the Greatest Hits. Everyone else only shares his or her biggest hits as well. It’s also good to remember that it’s extremely easy to manipulate “reality...
Get offline
Facebook and other social media sites often make us feel worse, not better. Even the hunched-over position we use to look at our phones makes us feel down.
Instead of scrolling through status updates, go out...
Engage With Awareness
- A good starting point for those who cannot live without social media is to turn off all notifications and actively engage in social media for a limited time, being aware of how it makes you feel.
- One also needs to curate the news feeds and only look at stuff which ...
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