The kids are asking something and you are looking at the phone. Friends are talking to you, your attention is on the phone. Wife is saying something and you are glued to the phone. This situation is called phone phubbing. Phone phubbing means ignoring loved ones in front of the phone. it’s very dangerous. Because of this, people keep going away from you and you do not even know.

Ignoring people around phubbing

Phone phubbing reduces mutual trust between two people.

Yasleem Al Sagaf, assistant professor at Charles Stuart University in Australia, has done research on phubbing. He wrote the book ‘Psychology of Phubbing’ after studying 170 other research. In his book, he says, phubbing is a form of ignoring the people around you. It has the most dangerous effect on children. They start feeling ostracized and cut off. Due to this they can also go into depression.

Such children themselves also become smartphone addicts. They start doing cyber bullying. They start teasing their friends online, taking out their anger on them. That’s why parents should not look at mobile while talking to their children. Keep full attention on the children. Listen to them carefully.

Fights grow between families

Children also become smartphone addicts when parents phub their phones.

Due to phone phubbing between husband and wife, quarrels increase. The companion goes on falling alone. Doubts at times. Mutual trust is less. This reduces the feeling of satisfaction in the relationship. To get the attention of his partner or to overcome his own loneliness, the other partner also engages himself in the smartphone.

Phubbing in the workplace spoils the working environment. Employees lose trust in a phubbing boss. The enthusiasm of the employees is low. Sometimes employees also associate it with self-esteem. Then they start procrastinating. They start misusing the Internet in offices, says Al Sadaf. Such employees start phubbing even with their colleagues.

Talk to the frequent phubbing person, interrupt him

Husband and wife should decide among themselves that they should not go to sleep with the phone on the bed.

If someone is repeatedly looking at the phone while talking, you can ask him to listen to you first. But if this is happening again and again, then sit with them and talk about it. Tell them what is bothering you. Such a habit goes away only when repeatedly interrupted.

Make a rule at home that you will not keep your phone with you while eating. Husband and wife should decide among themselves that they should not go to sleep with the phone on the bed. Do not keep the phone in hand while talking to the family.