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Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by ziddoap on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:27PM (#32269707)
>Constantly explaining acronyms

Writing out an acronym one time in your paper/article/blog is not "constantly".

>Sometimes you're not the intended audience

Often times I run into this issue when I am the intended audience, but may not be familiar with the trendiest acronym to describe something. Or I'm familiar with 2-3 uses of the same acronym and am not sure which one is applicable.

Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by OrderlyTiamat on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:38PM (#32269819)
>Writing out an acronym one time in your paper/article/blog is not "constantly".

Exactly, and neither is it explaining.

I don't get what the big deal is, "fear of missing out (FOMO)" is just four words extra, once, and you don't need to write an essay on the etymology of the term or something. It just ensures we're all on the same page and when it's not clear to someone they can google it. Do people not know how many overlapping abbreviations there are? It's almost like the acronyms are shortening the words somehow to a smaller representation that is not necessarily unique.

Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by jonas21 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:49PM (#32269925)
> Writing out an acronym one time in your paper/article/blog is not "constantly".

I think you mean "your paper/article/weblog (blog)"

Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies by ziddoap on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:53PM (#32269974)
You really got me there!

But clipping isn't the same as acronyms, mainly because a clipped word is (generally) easily searchable whereas acronyms are shared across several domains and will sometimes overlap inside a single domain, which is the source of the frustration for me.