Phubbing
- NewsJasmine Jones
‘Phubbing’, The Social Faux Pas You Didn’t Know You Were Guilty Of
Sure they throw you the odd “mmhmm”, glancing up up once in a while to pay lip service to your exchange but they’re not actually listening. Well, there’s a name for this scourge on our social interactions - it’s called “phubbing”. Phubbing is a portmanteau of the words “phone” and “snubbing”. The term, which originated in Australia, is used to describe “the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention”. Is this desire to favour our phones ov