Psychologists at Nottingham Trent University say ‘Fear Of Missing Out’ is driving internet addiction up in the UK…
Writing in the CyberPsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking Journal, Dr Halley Pontes said: “When experiencing FOMO chronically, it could lead to addictive behaviour towards social media use…
“One potential strategy to curb FOMO may be to manage which notifications we want to receive.”
Dr Pontes said his study had gone further than most by focusing on lots of different social media sites, rather than just Facebook.
It claims the most common factors among those likely to get addicted are FOMO, irrational beliefs and poor mental health.
You can see the difference in brain programming, just in the terminology. In K-selection, your fear is failure to survive. Failure to pay rent, or have food, or be able to support your loved ones.
But in r-selection, your fear is failure to consume every possible opportunity to acquire pleasure (reproduce). That is addiction, and although it is highly disadvantageous in K-selection, in r-selection, where the competition is to see who can mate the most, FOMO is a very advantageous form of brain programming.
Once you have that difference in a population, you will have two groups who will see different worlds, have different priorities, and be totally unable to understand each other.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because you don’t want others to miss out
Fear of missing out == hypergamy
Leftists are women…
FOMO is a seriously real thing. I see it all the time with adolescents and younger people in their early 20’s. I keep telling those idiots, that the only things they are missing out on is sin, heartache and regret, but few listen. This is exactly why you need a patriarchy and social ostracism of the rule breakers- it helps people in the long run to make fewer mistakes and have fewer regrets. The worst rule breakers, who break the most, are unrepentant and show no real regrets must be cast out.
People are ultimately responsible for their actions, even before 18, but there are so, so many things in our society (dopamine sources) that reduce agency that nearly all young people (18-25) just don’t have the maturity to navigate this and win. They need guidance and the firm hand of discipline. Still there are people, I have witnessed, who have broken no laws, married chaste, and have large healthy happy families. Nobody is perfect, but these people come pretty close. Purity is possible. Once impure however, you can’t re-obtain it.
Now, hypocrisy too is another problem. Frequently people will break rules before they are 18. If this is the case, and their parents are religious leaders, then you have to ask the question- are their parents encouraging this behavior through lack of punishment? Are their parents too lax in instilling discipline? Some of the blame goes to the parents, and points to bad genes of the responsibility/impulse control variety. Basically, an r-genetic dad just lets his kids do whatever they want. With boys this can create a prodigal son, with girls this can create a whore- so while boys may be more of a handful to deal with, girls do more damage to themselves and reduce their pre-wall years of potentially raising a happy family. This is the origin of the North-West European concept of daughter guarding. Strangely, not many NW Europeans are doing this anymore- the Hajnal has gone r.
And of course there is forgiveness and remission of sins but, repentance won’t cure you of STD’s or unwanted children. Somethings are forever, and few seem to be teaching this to their children nowadays.
FOMO
explains my regular checking in on this site perfectly.