Designing Social Networks to Combat Fear of Missing Out

Alutaybi, Aarif; McAlaney, John; Stefanidis, Angelos; Phalp, Keith; Ali, Raian

doi:10.14236/ewic/hci2018.80

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“…More research is needed in software design practices such as UX, requirements engineering and HCI, in order to develop intervention systems that specifically target FoMO. Alutaybi et al [11] proposed that countermeasures should be embedded into social media. However, in order to design such countermeasures, a greater understanding of FoMO and the situations in which it occurs is needed.…”

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“…In this paper, we build on the work conducted in [11] to explore the real-time experience of FoMO through a series of studies, including interviews, diary study and three focus group sessions, to develop a conceptual model by which FoMO can be represented. Our classification of FoMO could aid future information system design in relation to social media to combat FoMO, enable people to be more informed about how FoMO happens, and in turn to identify FoMO in their own social media usage.…”

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Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) as Really Lived: Five Classifications and one Ecology

Alutaybi

McAlaney

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2019 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC)

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Social media provides a platform for information sharing and dissemination and has speedily become a popular method for individuals to relate to others regardless of the time and geographical distance. However, this wealth of connectivity and availability of information may lead to the experience of the Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) that typically refers to a preoccupation of the users of social media about lost opportunities when they are offline or unable to connect and communicate as wished. Despite the recognition of the concept, studies around FoMO have used offline data collection techniques such as interviews, focus groups and surveys. This has led to a limited understanding of the lived FoMO experience and a rather simplified and coarse-grained view of the concept. In this paper, we delve into the specifics and nuances of FoMO through multi-stage qualitative research, including interviews, diary study and three focus group sessions and elaborate upon the concept and determine its various manifestations and classification. The lived experience is mainly gathered through a diary study. We present five main classifications characterising FoMO and develop an ecology for it.

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Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) as Really Lived: Five Classifications and one Ecology

Alutaybi

McAlaney

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2019 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC)

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“…The overwhelming use of social media combined with the peer pressure to be online can lead one to lose track of time spent online and of the interactions made with social media platforms. This has prompted research on tools to aid people in self-regulating their digital media usage [4,5].…”

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“…For example, users can authorise software to alert them when their usage indicates risk, and then send them messages about ways to combat it, e.g. through goal setting techniques [5].…”

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Problematic Attachment to Social Media: Lived Experience and Emotions

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Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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People's relationship with social media and their contacts on them can be problematic. People may engage in social media in a compulsive and hasty style to increase their popularity, reputation and enhance their self-esteem. However, this problematic attachment to social media may result in side effects on people's well-being. Therefore, people may need assistance to reform their relationship with social media in a way that it maintains different aspects of their online interaction, such as empathy with others and maintaining their popularity and relatedness. In order to provide the tools and methods to support people in reforming their relationship with social media, towards a healthier usage style, we need to understand the experience of people who suffer a problematic relationship with them. Most studies on the topic are based on methods which would lack ecological validity, e.g. using surveys and interviews, and do not capture or imitate such a digital experience as lived. In an attempt to better explore how people experience problematic attachment and relationship with social media, and their associated emotions, we conducted a multistage qualitative method study including a diary study to gather lived experience. We aim to inform both users and designers towards a managed and tool-supported reform of their problematic relationship with social media and, ultimately, having a healthier online interaction.

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“…Unlike other addictions, technology can monitor its usage and report back to users, making them more informed and conscious of their usage [14]. For instance, users can request to receive notifications if their usage patterns suggest they are at risk as well as advice on how to combat the problem [15].…”

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Problematic Attachment to Social Media: the Psychological States vs Usage Styles

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Jiang

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2019 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)

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Many people worldwide rely on social media to satisfy their social needs for relatedness, learning and enhancing selfesteem. However, over-reliance on social media often results in problematic attachment, which risks personal, social and financial wellbeing. From a design perspective, we argue that social media can be improved with tools to manage such problematic attachment and help users reform their interaction style, social expectations and online identity to restore a healthy reliance. Designing such behaviour change tools can be challenging due to the characteristics of people with problematic behaviours, e.g. denial, relapse and cognitive dissonance. This paper explores the role of social media in such attachment and reveals associated psychological states. Our method provides an ecologically valid exploration through employing diary studies as a data collection method, aiming to introduce countermeasures for problematic attachment in future social media design.

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Designing Social Networks to Combat Fear of Missing Out

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Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) as Really Lived: Five Classifications and one Ecology

Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) as Really Lived: Five Classifications and one Ecology

Problematic Attachment to Social Media: Lived Experience and Emotions

Problematic Attachment to Social Media: the Psychological States vs Usage Styles

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