[Ads-l] NYMag: FOGO is the New FOMO

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Apr 18 19:55:28 UTC 2015


It's all about the trendy.

Be thankful that so few of those inconsequential, flash-in-the-pan
allusions are taking up your valuable brain space.

It isn't old age, it's directed attention.

JL

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:49 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> This is all very meta... What has social media wrought?
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> http://goo.gl/l6GjCh
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> I must be getting old because I find this piece hard to read. I'm sure
> people here will find a lot of things to like (or dislike) here. I'll just
> leave you with a link.
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> VS-)
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