I didn't even know what 'phubbing' was until the campaign appeared in the news.Yet I do know this, 'phubbing' is an insidious evil of the 21st Century! This happens all the time. People phone snubbing others (ie phubbing them). How often when talking to someone do they suddenly blank you in favour of checking an incoming text?
It is horrendously rude and arrogant and yet people don't always seem to see it as so. If you turned physically away from someone mid conversation and started talking tom someone else wouldn't that be rude? It's the same thing!
Stop it people, - it IS rude and it IS arrogant! Please respect others. You have a living, breathing person in front of you; put them before the technology.
if it was that important they'd contact you again anyway. Plus how important can it be? No civilized person would text another with personal news surely? Accidents, job changes, family crises, these are thing s people talk about - not text. so leave the phone alone!
Here's a link to others, running the anti phubbing campaign who can phrase it with a higher degree of literacy and persuasiveness than me.
http://stopphubbing.com/
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