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When FOMO makes concentration impossible for teenagers

Every time I try to put my phone away to focus on homework I get anxious that I'm missing something important and I pick it back up within ten minutes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of missing out creates a state of perpetual partial attention that fragments focus and undermines deep engagement.

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