12 reasons we've given up #FOMO in favour of #JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out)

Do you check social media every two minutes? Are you constantly dashing around from this night in the pub to that work leaving do? Are you constantly tired and worried?

Of course you are, because you've got FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out - a condition that causes nothing but misery to sufferers.

But the good news is, millions of us are now swapping FOMO for JOMO – the JOY of missing out!

Yes, we're discovering the untold pleasure of staying at home, pottering around and taking it easy. Why? Well these are just 12 reasons why staying in is the new going out:

FOMO vs JOMO: Thankfully, more and more of us are discovering the untold pleasure of staying at home

1) When you've had enough, do you have to apologise profusely for being so lame, spend half an hour looking for a taxi, then walk for miles in your heels til your feet bleed til you find a night bus? No, you do not. Going to bed involves walking up the stairs and hopping into your lovely bed. Just like that.

2) Getting another round in means walking three steps to the well-stocked drinks cabinet or fridge – not having to take out a mortgage then wait half an hour while everyone else at the bar is served before you.

3) Because home cinema trumps THE cinema. Oh yes! No annoying hooded teenagers texting throughout the film, no £8.95 boxes of popcorn, no other people rustling crisp packets. And if you've got Sky Cinema, you can enjoy the latest movie releases like Spectre – which Sky Cinema is premiering this Friday, months before any other subscription service.

Home cinema trumps the box office, every time, and if you've got Sky Cinema, you can watch Spectre months before other subscription services

An evening at home with the Minions (available from 29 July), or an overpriced night in the cinema with £8.95 popcorn? No brainer...

4) When your eyes are bigger than your belly and you order far too much food, you don't have the embarrassment of asking for a doggy bag - you just pop it in the fridge ready for lunch the next day. Or (who are we kidding?), breakfast.

5) If you accidentally (ahem!) drink so much that standing up is a challenge, you can simply fall asleep where you are on the sofa.

Make like Miranda Kerr and relax with a home face mask - another benefit of staying in!

6) Save serious money. We mean it. A family can watch brilliant movies like Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Star Wars: The Force Awakens with mountains of snacks on Sky Cinema for less than the price of taking a family of four out to a multiplex once (and that's before you even hit the popcorn stand)!

7) You know what the weather indoors is going to be like. And given the summer we've had so far, that means it's going to be preferable to shivering in a beer garden in the rain. So no more going out wearing shorts and a t-shirt but taking a cardigan, coat, scarf, hat, brolly and wellies with you just in case.

8) Girls, you can make like Miranda Kerr with a home face mask (honest – you'll look just as good as her…). In fact, why not have a long soak in the tub with a glass of bubbly and treat yourself to all manner of beauty treatments.

9) Guys – while she's doing that, why don't you perform beauty treatments too …on the house? Try putting up that shelf like you promised. Or wash up. Or run the vacuum round. All without expecting a round of applause and year-long hall pass on cleaning, yeah?

10) When you go to the bathroom, you'll be alone and won't have to fight your way to the sink through a sobbing girl surrounded by half a dozen friends saying: 'Babe, he ain't worth it.'

11) Cuddle up to your cat or teach your dog a new trick – they'll appreciate being spoiled rotten. Just remember – they're not statues. Yes, Taylor Swift, we're talking to you.