Phubbing Is the New Epidemic, And You Are Contagious
Is it time to put into quarantine our smartphones?
How many times have you gone to a place to spend some quality time with an old friend, have a nice, catch-up dinner with a relative or a romantic date, just to realize that they aren’t interested in engaging with you, but with their phones?
Here are series of commonplace scenarios we all know perfectly well: a dinner party; a casual encounter with a colleague; an unexpected date; a hiking trip to the forest with a good friend. All of these social settings have been invaded by an omnipresent guest: our cell phones.
Staring at our phones has become the new social norm. Wherever you look, and at all times, there’s always someone endlessly enthralled in their black-mirrored fantasies. Thriving in the online world, exercising their fingertips to the maximum. The phenomenon even has a term for it: “phubbing”, as for phone snubbing. We all have been guilty of doing it, and victims of this behavior too.
The democratization of technology has given us unlimited access to our gadgets. It seems like we can no longer live without being immersed 24/7 in a state of permanent interaction. Social media has exacerbated this constant need by supplying boundless amounts of new content every second deliberatively…
