This Wired Piece on 'The New FOMO' Is All of Us

Caught in an endless news trap? There's help

Nick Stockton begins his piece on internet news addiction by asking a question we’ll be hearing from generations that follow: “Where were you when covfefe happened?”

Blissfully, we don’t remember.

“Since the election, every iota of news has somehow come to seem more urgent,” Stockton writes, explaining how incidents like President Trump’s covfefe tweet become a cause célèbre.

If we look back at it in retrospect, however, all those iotas appear so much less significant, even the deservedly important ones.

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