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DEC 25, 2014–JAN 7, 2015 3 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & Check out our columnists facebook/dailyxtra.com and bloggers on dailyxtra.com Comment tweet @dailyxtra and Twitter. I noticed a friend-culling trend this year, but there’s no need to A sex be that dramatic. On Facebook, just worker’s tale The joy of missing out hide the feeds of people who bombard Trading a blowjob your timeline with events or photos of for 20 bucks and EDITORIAL officially uploaded in 2010 — that’s their wild social lives. Okay, you’ll need a half pack of PHIL VILLENEUVE some really advanced JOMO). She to blatantly root out these people on cigarettes had encourages viewers to nurture JOMO Instagram and Twitter, but improve brought me to a new Texts, voicemails, emails, behaviour by testing out being alone your feeds by following magazines level of debauchery. newsletters, reminder in “acceptable places” like the bath- you love or writers and photographers Courtney Love alerts, calendars, alarms... today more room, coffee shops and the library. doing cool, inspiring stuff. This will would have been than ever, humans are bombarded It’s not much of a stretch to “stall,” as encourage more feelings of curiosity, proud. with “things that are happening today, she puts it, and read a paper or people- rather than guilt. tonight, tomorrow, this weekend, this watch. Then there’s the gym and pub- The whole point of JOMO in 2015 is month...” It’s exhausting. I’m having lic transportation —perfect places to to learn to be happy in your own world a mild panic attack just reading the put in your headphones and listen instead of validating yourself through Adventures previous sentence. You don’t even have to something new or something you someone’s else’s achievements and so- in gay to be a very social person to be inun- love. But JOMO doesn’t mean always cial calendar. I’ll warn you now: it’s go- parenting dated with appointments. We exist in being alone. It can also mean hanging ing to be tough. Next year and beyond, It’s not that I don’t a world that can’t stop talking. It’s like out with friends at home or, yes, in a we will be online and reachable more like Hot Wheels or a constant show-and-tell. It’s what bar; just pick and choose the friends than we’ve ever been. 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