A study from 2022 published in Frontiers echoes these insights from relationship experts, revealing that phubbing’s ramifications extend beyond mere discomfort, delving into territories of distrust and exclusion. And the cycle perpetuates.
There is nothing worse than feeling like the third wheel, especially when your friend’s mobile gets more attention than you. A new term has been coined for the antisocial behaviour, “phubbing” . Phubbing is the act of “subbing others in a social setting by checking your phone”.