About Antoinette Siu

Antoinette is a Communications Associate at WiserEarth. At the University of California, Berkeley, she studied Peace and Conflict Studies with a focus in Human Rights. She hopes to pursue investigative journalism and nonprofit management in the future. In another life, she'd love to travel the world as a food critic or do some CSI. If only we could have it all. Follow her @antoinettesiu
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The Silent Epidemic of Feeling Left Out

By Antoinette Siu
September 11, 2012
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The Silent Epidemic of Feeling Left Out
Recently over dinner, a few of my friends finally managed to get together for our long-awaited catch-up. You know that feeling: phone tags, missed IMs, buried emails. Somehow, hectic schedules and personal commitments always seem out of sync and, week after week, you take a raincheck on “let’s grab lunch sometime”. But for Millennials (A.K.A. Generation Plugged-In), what’s perhaps most attractive about technological integration is that it allows us to keep track of one another -- without ever being in sync. Enter: FOMO, or “Fear Of Missing Out”.…
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