00:00Urban Dictionary's definition of FOMO is fear of missing out.
00:04I'm not afraid to say that I have it.
00:06Like, I know it's really embarrassing because people want to act like,
00:09I'm fine, you know?
00:11Like, I don't need to always be at the party or at the event.
00:14I'm fine.
00:16I'm fine.
00:17I have FOMO when, like, all my friends, like, have a girls' night and just, like,
00:20sit in and drink wine and laugh a lot.
00:22Like, oh, I wish I could be laughing at them.
00:23And they don't invite you?
00:23Or are they going to invite you?
00:25Yes.
00:26I'm just not drinking.
00:27Can you guys use your own, like, your own Instagrams and Snapchats to inspire FOMO in other people?
00:33Oh, 100%.
00:34Do you know why I went to Paris?
00:37To make people jealous?
00:38Just to make everyone jealous of my life.
00:41I'm just kidding.
00:42Liars.
00:43What gives you, like, the worst FOMO?
00:45I feel like it's more of the live feed stuff that's happening now.
00:48Snapchat and Instagram.
00:50You're seeing what's happening live in front of you in someone else's life all the time.
00:55Like, seeing everyone doing cool things all throughout the day.
00:58And it's like, oh.
00:59I'm in Paris.
01:00It is.
01:00I feel like I've transitioned into this new stage of FOMO really in the last year.
01:06Once I got to New York, I started feeling this FOMO of being single.
01:11And I think it was because all of a sudden I was around, you know, these, like, badass,
01:16single, successful women that I wanted to be like.
01:20And I'm like.
01:21Like you guys.
01:22Us single girls have FOMO of you relationship girls.
01:25Yeah.
01:26Because we're like, hey, I want a boyfriend in my 20s so that we can go out to nice dinners.
01:32I don't know.
01:33The dinners are nice.
01:33The dinners are nice.
01:34I don't know.
01:34And they hold hands and stuff.
01:36It's all about the dinner.
01:37Yeah.
01:38Okay.
01:38More than dinner.
01:39Sorry.
01:39The love part thing.
01:41What gives you FOMO?
01:43Let us know.
01:44Comment below so that we don't feel as lame.
01:46Okay.
01:47So what is the opposite of FOMO?
01:50I think that making an active decision to maybe just not look at your phone or I'll
01:56read.
01:57Yeah, I read.
01:58Wow.
01:58That's a thing I do.
01:59That's crazy.
02:00Yes.
02:01I haven't read since James and the Giant Peach.
02:03Okay.
02:04Yes.
02:05You know, I think the FOMO happens when you're like.
02:08It's not cool that I'm sitting at home by myself.
02:10But like if you actually genuinely want to sit at home by yourself.
02:14Yeah.
02:14There is nothing wrong with that.
02:15Sometimes I go see a movie by myself.
02:18By myself.
02:19Because why not?
02:20Don't tell anyone.
02:21Don't tell anyone.
02:21But it comes from a place of like sometimes being by yourself is awesome.
02:26I think it's healthy.
02:26I think it is healthy too.
02:28I have a personal event.
02:28To avoid FOMO is being broke.
02:31That's true.
02:32You can't have FOMO if you can't afford it.
02:34Yeah, exactly.
02:35I can't.
02:36I have no money.
02:37I can't.
02:38I can't.
02:38Sorry.
02:38Sorry.
02:39It's undeniable.
02:40We all have it from time to time.
02:42Comment below.
02:43Let us know what gives you FOMO.
02:45If you have any strategies or solutions for ways to not have FOMO.
02:50We want to know.
02:53Comment below.
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