Jaon pay apason ugsa di na
magdugay sa trabaho…
Before, time can still be
spent for extra work in the office since there were few options. Not like now
when a new restaurant is opening and there seems to be a need to grace the
event to post something on social media. With this, it seems that you are
having a good life. Or there is a need to update with the lives of friends and
try not to be left out since they just come from a vacation abroad.
The fear of missing out, or
FOMO, refers to the feeling or perception that others are having more fun,
living better lives, or experiencing better things than you are. It involves a
deep sense of envy and affects self-esteem.
People of this generation need
to have some sort of happy moments to be posted on social media so for them to
be validated that they are “living their lives”. That’s why they need to be
fast in doing their work so to find “moments” they can use in updating their
status.
Since the advent of social
media FOMO has become more obvious. Social media has accelerated the FOMO
phenomenon in several ways. It provides a situation in which people are
comparing their regular lives to the highlights of others' lives (Scott, 2022).
Before, work seemed to have a
blessing on its own that teachers spend extra time in checking papers and
writing lesson plans and training their learners outside school hours because
there were no distractions like online games and video recordings for Tiktok
postings.
FOMO can also lead people into
behaviors that actively do them harm. In 2018, a Credit Karma/Qualtrics study
of 1,045 Americans aged 18-34 revealed that almost 40 percent had gone into
debt so they could "keep up" with the lifestyles of friends that they
had seen on social media. Another study showed that FOMO causes fatigue, stress,
and sleep problems in university students (Bradshaw, 2019).
There is nothing wrong with being
happy and finding happiness through relationships and adventures. But if these
are being dictated by something rooted from envy, that is another story.
Time magazine reported:
Research findings show those with low levels of satisfaction of the fundamental
needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness tend towards higher levels of
fear of missing out as do those with lower levels of general mood and overall
life satisfaction.
We need to be grateful with
what we have. Dreams and ambitions propel us to better heights, but we need to
guard our desires whether these are rooted to the attainment of
self-actualization or purely driven out by the need to compete.
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