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You won’t catch Thseen Nazir checking his phone during his lectures at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey. Nazir, a counselor and assistant professor in the counseling and guidance department, researches the impact of technology on social interactions, including the effect of “phubbing” — a portmanteau of the words phone and snubbing.
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If you are having a conversation with someone and they keep checking their phone or replying to messages, you are being “phubbed.” But what might seem like a harmless activity can have a real impact on your relationships with others. “It’s taking your quality time,” Nazir said. “We don’t even realize.”
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In some ways, our phones help us create and maintain relationships: They help you find companionship, let people look into the eyes of family and friends who can’t be with them, and connect lovers across vast expanses of land and sea.
For those of you with younger children, what rules do you/ will you have in place for them regarding mobile phone usage?
For those of you with adult children, what are your thoughts on their mobile phone usage, how has it affected your relationship?
For those of you without children, what are your thoughts about the effects of phones particularly amongst the younger generations?
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Still, the use and even presence of a smartphone during in-person interactions can lessen the quality of those moments.
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“Smartphones allow us to be connected to our loved ones easily through texts and calls, but sometimes when they intrude upon our face-to-face conversations it can be a problem,” said Genavee Brown, a psychology lecturer at Northumbria University in the UK.
Quality time with friends and family suffers
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How much of a problem it is may depend on how old the people in the interaction are. In 2020, Nazir conducted a survey of older and younger teachers at his university and asked how they felt when students used their phone during class. “The perception they had regarding this behavior was totally different.”
Do you think it’s disrespectful to use your phone at particular times, for example, at the dinner table, in a university lecture, etc.?
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He found that most older teachers saw smartphone use as disrespectful, but younger teachers would start to self-evaluate and wonder whether their teaching abilities were the reason students were not engaged.
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But it is not only the person being phubbed who experiences negative effects from phone use. Brown’s research, published in the journal Emerging Adulthood in 2016, showed that the longer pairs of friends used their phones, the lower the quality of their interactions. The study found that all participants had worse interactions when they used their phones, regardless of how close they were as friends.
