2008, Philip Delves Broughton, Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School, The Penguin Press (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
And then there was FOMO, fear of missing out. The trick to HBS, the administration kept telling us, was not succumbing to FOMO. You had to choose exactly what you wanted to do and do it without fretting about what else was going on.
2010, Charlie Taylor, Divas & Door Slammers: The Secret to Having a Better Behaved Teenager, Vermillion (2010), →ISBN, page 197:
Often, because of FOMO, they are reluctant to do these things on their own, but if you can get their friends involved as well, the resistance disappears.
On those occasions, she said, her knee-jerk reaction is often to post an account of a cool thing she has done, or to upload a particularly fun picture from her weekend. This may make her feel better — but it can generate FOMO in another unsuspecting person.
2012, Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World, Perigee (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Introverts are not immune to FOMO—fear of missing out. Do you suffer FOMO over every invitation? Then you need to set that fear aside and consider the event in a different light.
2013, Daniel Reimold, Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age, Routledge (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
In a Huffington Post write-up last spring, a Georgetown University student confirmed FOMO "is a widespread problem on college campuses … Even when we'd rather catch up on sleep or melt our brain with some reality television, we feel compelled to seek bigger and better things from our weekend. We fear that if we don't partake in every Saturday night's fever, something truly amazing will happen, leaving us hopelessly behind."
