Smartphone FOMO is a universal experience, and as you can see, Christians are not immune. When writer Andy Crouch took forty days offline—no screens and no social media—he said the experience was mostly delightful. “But I will say this: FOMO—the ‘fear of missing out’—is a real thing,” he admitted. “What I was most afraid of missing out on was not information, but affirmation. I discovered how attached, or maybe addicted, I was to the small daily dose of reassurance that other people ‘like’ me and ‘follow’ me. . . . It was sobering how strong the pull was on me.”6
