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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"Fear of missing out" in case anybody was debating if its worth clicking on the headline just to find out what the fuck FOMO is. Or maybe I'm just stupid.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Classic FOMO to have FOMO about the meaning of FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 Always has been......

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Urban Dictionary is useful for lots of modern abbreviations or Internet lingo

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

This one is well established and old enough that it has it's own wikipedia article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call you stupid because there's always someone who doesn't know something, but this one is surprising to me. I thought FOMO was a pretty well established acronym.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Maybe I was just one of the lucky 10.000 then :-) Also, non native speaker, so I guess there is that.