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Podcast: Love and Life with Dr. Karin and Pastor Elliott
Episode: Is Your Phone Sabotaging Your Friendships? with Miriam Conner, M.A. Ep. 225
Description: When you’re with your friends, how long can you make it before one of you pulls out your phone? You’re just responding to texts, of course, or, maybe checking the likes from your last post. Most of us do it all day every day.
But research shows jumping onto social media when you’re with friends IRL may have a detrimental impact on your connection.
There’s even a newish term for this,“technopherence”– technology based interference. And specifically, when “technopherence” disrupts your time with friends, it’s called “phubbing” – “snubbing [friends] in order to focus your attentio...