FOMO Has Never Been Worse on the Internet
We’re all early adopters now.
Earlier this year, ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app of all time, reaching 100 million active users in what seemed like an astonishingly brisk two months. Now, just six months later, that record has been usurped: Threads got there in less than a week. According to data from Sensor Tower, a market-intelligence firm, Meta’s Twitter clone had the best launch day of any app in the past decade.
The internet is moving faster than ever before. Twitter and Facebook each took to reach the 100-million-users milestone; Instagram took . TikTok did it in . Now the record has been; now we all feel like we’re primed to sign up right away or risk being left behind. We all have the fear of missing out.
