I do, personally, find it very rude when someone with which I am talking with, cuts the conversation to answer the cellphone
A recent study has been done considering 800 cellphone users in the United States as they try to determine by how much they distract away from everyday activities.
Any activity generated by the phone will attract attention, from a notification on the touch screen to the signal light of an alert or the sound of an incoming call.
If none of this happens, the phone's activity is verified just in case. Not a novelty for many, this type of behaviors is often seen as an obsession and a source of distraction.
The smartphone can reduce people's cognitive ability by taking up their limited resources and, in turn, reduces the energy that could be allocated to other tasks. That was what determined a study of the University of Texas in Austin with about 800 participants for two weeks, with diverse tests and evaluations that looked to reproduce diverse situations of use with a cell phone.
Best time to check cell... heck you don't need much cognitive ability here...right...
In silence and without the vibration mode, study participants were divided into three groups to evaluate how they reacted by leaving the smartphone in the pocket, in a bag outside the room or on the table.
After evaluating each group, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin determined that the group of people who had left the mobile phone out of reach achieved better records of retention of information and memory in a series of tests and evaluations. Within this evaluation were placed in second place those who had the smartphone in the pocket, followed by the group that had the electronic device at hand.
The presence of smartphones in the relationship is also another case where the attention of one or both members of the couple are engrossed with the display of the electronic device.
...real or virtual friends ... ?
According to a Pew Research Center study, 42 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds admitted that technology is a distraction within the couple. In the case of people between 30 and 49 years old, the percentage decreases considerably: despite being a high number, 29% recognize this problem.
This misfortune, affecting both friendships and relationships, already has a name: phubbing, a term that results from the conjunction between phone and snubbing and is defined as the act of snubbing someone in a social environment by looking at the phone instead of paying attention. "Nomophobia is the irrational fear of being without your mobile phone or being unable to use your phone for some reason, such as the absence of a signal or running out of minutes or battery power. A phobia is by definition an irrational fear".
Today it is not very clear if technology and social networks distant people. Not to say not many know what happens during the intimacy of couples.
Facebook, Instagram or Twitter expand the contact field of any user, but there would also be fewer and fewer personal contacts. No one ever looks in the eye at dinner.
..no more eye to eye contact at dinner time ...
This prejudice affects both friendships and relationships. As reported, phubbing was born along with the creation of smartphones and addiction has moved to the center of the family and to the privacy of the home. In the Pew Research Center study, 25% of couples confessed to sending texts while under the same roof and another 21% of couples say that they engage more with their partner through a text message.
But not all is lost. In addition to separating spouses, technology also helps to unite them. 9% of those surveyed said they solved a problem by a text message; they could not personally talk about.
With almost 30,000 followers on Facebook, the Stop Phubbing site seeks to raise awareness about this problem. The site has numerous data and comparisons of the scope of this addiction and even offers a "letter of intervention" so you can address your complaint to your friend or partner.
References:
https://www.utexas.edu/research/overview
https://www.facebook.com/
http://www.pewresearch.org/
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
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Of course it does happen but it depends on how urgent the call is (in my case)
so this means the person is always looking at the cell waiting for that urgent call to come in ....