Phubbing

Iwannahurl

Phubbing is the "the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention."

In some circles conversation now consists of two people occasionally glancing up from their smartphone and saying “I’m listening”.

Are you a phubber, a phubbee, or both?

cantdecide

Hate it. If I'm out with mates and they all go out for a smoke or something, I won't whip out the phone. It's a ridiculous habit IMO. When I see people do it, I think 'you saddo'.

Artful_Badger

When people do it to me I usually make a point of being ignorant to them when they talk to me. They will be midway through telling me something and I'll get up and walk off or go talk to someone else. They dont like that.

aaronjumper

I do this but just to check the time because I don't wear a watch.
Phone should only leave your pocket if it's ringing.

floggg

aaronjumper wrote: »

I do this but just to check the time because I don't wear a watch.
Phone should only leave your pocket if it's ringing.

If nobody is allowed to take their phone out to make a call though, how will phones ever ring?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Artful_Badger wrote: »

When people do it to me I usually make a point of being ignorant to them when they talk to me. They will be midway through telling me something and I'll get up and walk off or go talk to someone else. They dont like that.

I send them a text massage asking if they're having a good time.

aaronjumper

floggg wrote: »

If nobody is allowed to take their phone out to make a call though, how will phones ever ring?

They won't. People will just have to socialise the old fashioned way. Peasants

MusicalMelody

My boyfriend does this at dinner and i end up fighting with him about it every time. In my family it is extremely rude to use your phone at dinner but yet his family have no problem with it. When i met his parents for the first time we went to dinner and he was on his phone a lot. As his parents were conversing with each other i just turned around and said "Put your phone away this is nerve wrecking for me and you are being ridiculously rude" He got the point then. I still find myself giving out when we are out to dinner together though.

aaronjumper

I'm not sure which I dislike more. The fact that people do it or the fact that it happens so often there is a term for it now.

anncoates

Phuckwitted: the act of creating wanky social phrases based on the prefix Ph during slow news days.

Nemeses

anncoates wrote: »

Phuckwitted: the act of creating wanky social phrases based on the prefix Ph during slow news days.

Phucking hell!

Iwannahurl

anncoates wrote: »

wanky social phrases based on the prefix Ph

Phapping?

aaronjumper

Nemeses wrote: »

Phucking hell!

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Phapping?

Ye are phull of it! :pac:

Talib Fiasco

OP is clearly an insecure phaggot

anncoates

Laugh it up, phuzz balls.

Nemeses

aaronjumper wrote: »

Ye are phull of it! :pac:

phuck off...

Ye know nutin' about the laws of phooo and phaaaa!

aaronjumper

Nemeses wrote: »

phuck off...

Ye know nutin' about the laws of phooo and phaaaa!

I sense a disturbance in the phorce!

Nemeses

aaronjumper wrote: »

I sense a disturbance in the phorce!

The phorce is deep within..

Oh wait. That was just a bit of wind..

My bad.,

Cupcake_Crisis

I'd be guilty of that without even realising. I'm not normally rude, I swear.

Aezur

Did OP make this term up, or was it coined somewhere else?

I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me.

OldGoat

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I send them a text massage asking if they're having a good time.

I tried that one night. He text'd me back saying "Great crac. It's your round."

shleedance

I rarely go out to social occasions so it's rarely an issue. I do sometimes take it out in the street and pretend I'm phoning/texting someone if I see someone I know coming towards me. Not meaning to be ignorant towards them, just that I have no "mental room" for socialising when I've my mind on things, ie. getting stuff around town.

Even when I want to socialise, the act of socialising is mentally exhausting, to say the least.

Nemeses

OldGoat wrote: »

I tried that one night. He text'd me back saying "Great crac. It's your round."

I hope you did get the next round too!

aliceayres

Somebody's been reading the Guardian. In moderation it's a natural part of modern life but in excess it's rather insulting.

shane9689

shleedance wrote: »

I rarely go out to social occasions so it's rarely an issue. I do sometimes take it out in the street and pretend I'm phoning/texting someone if I see someone I know coming towards me. Not meaning to be ignorant towards them, just that I have no "mental room" for socialising when I've my mind on things, ie. getting stuff around town.

Even when I want to socialise, the act of socialising is mentally exhausting, to say the least.

thats called being anti-social