Ironic, isn’t it?
This video by Xie Chenglin, from Changsha, depicts the life of phubbing in the new era.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, phubbing is used to describe someone who snubs someone in favor of their mobile device.
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Phubbers are indeed pushing humanity into a dangerous future.
A generation is full of people posting online for online recognition. Many ‘phubbers’ abandon their real life and virtues for an online persona and morphed reality.
The “reality” by the sharing and posting doesn’t show a user’s real life or the world. Everyone’s life online looks exotic and fun.
Behind the screen, many users are unhappy or socially detached.
Often times phubbers do not know how to interact or deal with reality. They spend all day playing on their phones in chat rooms, games or other social media apps living in a virtual reality.
Immersed in a virtual world connected only by their mobile phones, the pressures, and demands, in reality, are suppressed.
Phubbers become impetuous, impatient, and unable to get along with others. Even a slight touch can trigger negative emotions.
Most of the time, even if the person you love is in front of you, you don’t know what to say or do. Mobile phones are used as a shield to hide behind; to ease embarrassment, difficult situations, and “communication”.
We rely more and more on mobile phones as a means to do nearly everything these days.
Our original intention for using mobile phones to better facilitate communications has done the opposite and left us unable to communicate with those right in front of us.
We have lost our human touch.
Many signs at the metro will remind you to stay off your phone and mind your safety. Many activists are directly campaigning to put down our phones and be with friends and family.
Spend some quality time with your significant others.
Spend some quality time with your family.
Enjoy hanging out with friends.
Every human being has less than 1/5 of life at their disposal,
instead of wasting it glued to your hone, enjoy life!
Those hearts and thumbs up of approval are definitely
not as heartwarming as loved one’s genuine smile or voice.