Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Tired of feeling FOMO? #shorts

Name: Tired of feeling FOMO? #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-01-24T14:00:10+00:00
Duration: 25 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: A short YouTube video (Shorts) by Nir Eyal offering brief advice for avoiding FOMO on social media. Eyal explains that interacting with content that…

24 Jan 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video (Shorts) by Nir Eyal offering brief advice for avoiding FOMO on social media. Eyal explains that interacting with content that makes you feel FOMO (liking, sharing, commenting) increases how much of that content the algorithm shows you, and recommends actively curating your feed by engaging with more positive, inspiring content (e.g., liking videos that make you feel good) so the algorithm serves more of that instead.

So if you like and share and comment on images and videos that don't make you feel good, you know, people having the best time at a beach and that makes you feel fomo. The more you interact with that kind of content, the more you're going to see. As opposed to you can start curating your feed by telling the algorithms what kind of content you want to see more of. Like this video, for example. If you like this video, you're going to get more inspiring content that makes you feel good as opposed to making you feel fomo.