FOBO, the fear that surfaces

New technologies have contributed a lot to making our lives easier. However, they have also generated new pathologies. In addition to the already known nomophobia, the dependence on mobile phones, we now have FOBO, the fear of being disconnected.

FOBO responds to the English acronym for Fear of Being Offline and has been shown to be a psychic pathology that is becoming established among the younger public. The intense online life For many of us, with social profiles open on almost all platforms, it has only been the starting point that feeds this fear of missing an update or comment.

Facebook He already warned about it recently by revealing that the 70% of those under 24 years of age need to be permanently connected. The anxiety generated by the possibility of running out of battery or without Wi-Fi access is the main trigger of this new fear. A fear that has managed to overtake television as the main means of distraction for young people: 60% says he prefers to stay No TV before no cell phone.

And it is that the mobile It has already become the gateway for many of us to the virtual world. Access to social networks is now mostly mobile and many of the searches for immediate information are also done from our smartphones. Only when we need more information do we turn to the computer.

Access to social networks is the main use that young people make of their phones. According to This study According to a Facebook post, nearly half of American teenagers say they can't live without them, and even feel lost without them. A proportion that rises to 69% in Indonesia.