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April 3, 2014 • Issue no. 52 Volume 26
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Bloop! Bloop! Bloop! On cue, every person in a five foot radius immediately checks their phone. They don’t want to be the one missing Sally Jean liking their Instagram photo. Or maybe it was Billy Joe commenting on their hilarious tweet from earlier. FOMO, or the “fear of missing out,” is a plague that has stricken overly obsessed social media users. “I have it to the extent that I’ll put stuff off I need to do in order to hang out with people, so they don’t do something without me. I’ll admit, when I’m alone I probably check social media every 10 minutes,” said Melissa Corn, a senior at Boise State. Social media has driven users wild; Driven to constantly update phones and check and recheck all of the different apps. Someone could be having the worst day ever, but on Instagram they’re posting a selfie with a caption about how beautiful life is, so all of their followers think that their life is ideal. Social media users have started creating these fake personas that people know them by, which mostly aren’t true at all. FOMO also applies to missing out on events. People can’t relax on Saturday night at home if they know they are missing a party without getting into an anxious frenzy. The perception is if their friends have fun without them, they’ll never live it down. FOMO has become a real term that many
people identify with, so much so that it was added to the dictionary in 2013. The problem is that people are so caught up on their Twitter timeline that they forget there is a real live person across the table from them with whom they can interact. FOMO can create sleep deprivation. Users stay up late so they can do anything and everything. The cycle continues until everyone’s all zombies, never sleeping so it’s impossible to miss a thing. Some people experience FOMO differently. Some will respond to text messages in their sleep. Apparently, it’s not uncommon either. Sleep texting has become a phenomena that closely relates to sleep walking. One’s conscious mind is asleep while motor skills are awake. That can lead to some embarrassing responses. Breena Hohe, sophomore, has sleep texted before, leading to a little confusion in the morning. “I didn’t even know a person could text in their sleep,” Hohe said. “I woke up one morning and my friend had texted me asking me if I was alright. Apparently I texted her that I couldn’t go to sushi because I had gone yesterday. That wasn’t even what we were talking about, though.” Social media has its positives and negatives, but it’s prevalent in today’s world and it’s up to everyone to choose when and how often to use it.
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It rained, and poured, Tuesday for the Boise State men’s tennis team. “It was the perfect storm and we were on the wrong end of it,” head coach Greg Patton said. Patton and the no. 22 ranked Boise State men’s tennis team went into Palo Alto, Calif. with the goal of capping off their West Coast with three wins, but instead left soaked and sorrowful. According to Patton, there was only a two or three hour window in which the match could be played because of weather, so the Broncos were forced to breeze through their warmups and were unable to perform many of
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their prematch “rituals.” Stanford swept the Broncos 4-0 in unbelievable fashion. Boise State didn’t put up much of a fight in singles matches, losing each of the four matches in straight sets. Senior Andy Bettles, ranked no. 86 in the nation in singles play, was defeated 6-1 and 6-4 by the Cardinal’s John Morrissey. Patton blames the uncharacteristic loss on a lack of preparation and faulty coaching. Following the match, Patton continuously told The Arbiter he blamed the loss on himself. “This hurts. It hurts like crazy. This is one of my best teams,” Patton said.” I just felt that they were going to be ready to go. We were flat and I can’t allow
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that. Usually I don’t allow that to happen.” The Broncos had just mounted 6-1 victories over UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly on their California road trip, and had the opportunity to move into the top 16 in the national rankings, and earn a very favorable draw in the upcoming NCAA Championships. “I just don’t see how we can get in the top 16,” Patton said. “We didn’t really have the preparation we wanted on the court. I thought we were better than this, and I was wrong. I’m angry at myself. I’m really angry at myself.” Despite the loss, Boise State still stands as a favorite to win the Mountain West Championships and has an opportunity to cor-
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Boise State men’s tennis is still fighting for a strong draw at the NCAA’s. rect some of its mistakes. “I thought they did some things better that we’ve been talking about this week. We’ve got some big things ahead of us,” Patton said. “It’s about how we re-
spond to it, and it’s going to make us better.” Patton has long wanted to bring a national championship to campus, and still believes his team has a chance. The lack of prepa-
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ration against Stanford, however, isn’t a good indicator of a championshipcaliber team. “The train had left the station before we could jump on it,” Patton said.
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