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RE: Phubbing and Its Negative Social Effects
Sadly I have done this in family meetings without realizing it.
The thing is if we get bored we tend to search for entertaining things without giving it too much thought, and yes, it might be disrespectful even if the person don't want to insult anyone...
But we should not think that in the past, when we had no technology we were all social beings, not at all, we can always find something that distract us and avoid us from interacting, look at this picture for example
The majority if not all of the people aren't chatting with each other, they are reading the newspaper instead...
So, its true that technology can distract from social interaction, but it is not that like its the first time this is happening.
Well, there is a difference between just being around people in society, and being in a socially interacting scenario where you are supposed to be interacting with others ;) But yes we are wanting to put our attention on a point of focus, like newspapers, a book, phone, laptop, etc.