Trapped to Stay Connected: Fear of Missing out (FoMO) and Internet Use in Millennials

Rahayu Utami, Elrisfa Magistarina

2021

Abstract

The rapid development of internet usage has an impact on changing behavior patterns on its users. One of them is related to the inability to use the internet proportionately. Compulsive Internet Use (CIU) is a maladaptive internet use indicating the user’s inability to control, too busy surfing the internet, and experiencing conflicts when wanting to stop using the internet. Researchers assume that feelings of worry or fear will be left behind or missed information from others, or fear of missing out (FoMO) may play a significant role in using the internet. This study involved 300 millennials with convenience sampling technique. The results of this study showed FoMO has a definite contribution to CIU. This study also showed that daily internet use time has a significant effect on CIU, which means the desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing makes people stayed online longer than originally intended. Nonetheless, the results of this study suggest that developmental age groups do not affect internet use. Understanding compulsive internet use requires acknowledging the purpose and context of internet use.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Utami R. and Magistarina E. (2021). Trapped to Stay Connected: Fear of Missing out (FoMO) and Internet Use in Millennials. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Psychological Studies - Volume 1: ICPsyche, ISBN 978-989-758-580-7, pages 43-49. DOI: 10.5220/0010808600003347

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpsyche21,
author={Rahayu Utami and Elrisfa Magistarina},
title={Trapped to Stay Connected: Fear of Missing out (FoMO) and Internet Use in Millennials},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Psychological Studies - Volume 1: ICPsyche,},
year={2021},
pages={43-49},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010808600003347},
isbn={978-989-758-580-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Psychological Studies - Volume 1: ICPsyche,
TI - Trapped to Stay Connected: Fear of Missing out (FoMO) and Internet Use in Millennials
SN - 978-989-758-580-7
AU - Utami R.
AU - Magistarina E.
PY - 2021
SP - 43
EP - 49
DO - 10.5220/0010808600003347