Zócalo Public SquareFOMO – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Where Does FOMO Come From? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/05/17/where-does-fomo-come-from/viewings/highlight-videos/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/05/17/where-does-fomo-come-from/viewings/highlight-videos/#respond Tue, 17 May 2016 07:01:10 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=73029 MIT’s Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, tells Zócalo Public Square Publisher Gregory Rodriguez how social media has heightened our fear of missing out. Turkle, who was accepting the sixth annual Zócalo Book Prize, explained that social media can make people jealous of other people’s glamorized version of their lives–and it can also alienate us from our own selves, as we struggle to live up to the Facebook versions of ourselves.

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