Phones used to connect us. Now, they exclude

The magic of ‘E.T. phone home’ is gone. The smartphone has drawn us apart.

Phubbing is a new word for a new anti-social act. To phub is to ‘phone-snub’. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
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A young man and a young woman sit facing each other across a restaurant table.

He is looking at his cellphone, and she is energetically trying to smack it from his hand.

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