Do you want to heal depression, relationships and damaged social interaction? Quit "phubbing" and put the phone down! Glamour reported Oct. 3, that phubbing is Baylor University's term for phone snubbing. And this casual behavior is causing a world of hurt. How? Well, it's pretty obvious that people everywhere are obsessed with their cellphones, talking, texting, playing games, socializing. They interrupt, annoy and cause accidents because they can't stop checking the phone. But new research says it more than just annoying. That very communicator device that is damaging real communication. Cyber interaction by phone sabotages real-time relationships. People who can't leave their phones alone depress their partners. Some even hide cellphones and glance on the sly, so they can pretend to be engaged when they are really texting or playing. Parents are especially prone to this kind of phubbing. For a supposedly "smart" Want to heal depression, relationships? Quit 'phubbing' and put the phone down | Examiner.comphone, that's pretty ignorant behavior.
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