phubbing

• sense of belonging
• dignity
• meaningful existence
• mastery

 
Contraction for phone snubbing, phubbing is snubbing someone by your side in favor of your phone. It wreaks havoc with the basic needs listed above. Many people report being phubbed more than once a day.

This one time I saw a very handsome couple, 30s, dressed well, maybe bf/gf or married, walking on New Montgomery Street in SF, and they were phubbing each other, his phone in his right hand, her phone in her left hand.

It would have been “sweller” to see them holding hands.