FOMO = Fear of missing out. The phrase attributed to Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake about the #ENVY being generated on Twitter these days.
On the front page of today’s New York Times the headline reads:
“On Twitter, ‘What a Party!’ Brings an Envious ‘Enough, Already!’”
“Twitter users are tiring of it: the sharp pang of envy that comes when someone they are following on the social networking site is clearly having a better time than they are — right now.”
Tweets from this year’s SXSW had other users questioning whether tweeters were “showing off rather than sharing.”
Read the rest of this thoughtful article from the Times’ Amy Harmon on all this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/us/19twitter.html?_r=1
Check it out. Let us know what you think! Are you tired of celebrity sightings and name dropping? Do you ever feel envious of a tweet? Is the Twitter tide changing? Will the underdog win with the Twitter audience?
Amazing humor and spot-on insights on the myriad ways ENVY is playing out in the financial crisis unfolding nationwide, with unions in a starring role as punching bag. Big money pitting worker against worker. Nice.
