#phubbers

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no more phubbers

[holyathome]

CONNECTING or PHUBBING?

OK - so you're probably asking, "What is phubbing?". Keep reading!

Ever been out and notice those folks who are constantly into their phone and oblivious to their surroundings? A few years back, my parents took 6 of my friends and I out to dinner for my birthday at a classy restaurant for fun. The 8 of us, engaged in conversation, laughter, and indulging in epicurean delights were appalled that throughout the entire meal, the folks at the 2-top beside us were each focused on their individual phones ignoring their dining mate. Sadly, in the years that have passed since then, I've continued to see these kind of behaviors increase. Ever experienced it yourself? Been out with a pal and they are more into their phone, constantly taking texts and heaven-forbid a phone call, instead of engaging with you; all the while you're pondering the other things you could have been doing instead? It is an epidemic in our current culture. But, I want to challenge you to rise above the trend.

In a book I'm reading, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, the author, John Mark Comer states, "This new normal of hurried digital distraction is robbing us of the ability to be present. Present to God. Present to other people. Present to all that is good, beautiful, and true in our world. Even present to our own souls." Are you present or stuck in a digital world that impedes fleshy relationships? He also talks about how things have changed when we're in situations where we have to wait - the line at the coffee shop, the grocery store, a red light 😳, in a waiting room, etc. It used to be we were left to take in the surroundings of the location, people watch, imagine, pray, listen, and chat with those around us! Now...look at the line at the coffee shop...everyone is standing there with their noses in their devices.

While out shopping with my mom before Christmas, we were in a long line at the Dollar Tree. The lady in front of us turned around and struck up a conversation about Giant Pickles. I know it sounds random, but in reality...it made the time pass without the stress of watching the clock while the slow and chatty cashier took care of the customers ahead of us. Not only that, we were present to the people around us, our senses were more engaged instead of bugging our eyeballs out of our head to induce a headache from the constant screen-time. Additionally, it gave us an unexpected topic to continue when we got into the car (phones away) and chuckle (a stress-reliever good for our mental and physical health) our way down the road. While we may never see the Giant Pickle gal ever again...she was a welcome presence in our day of errands.

So, have you figured out what it means to be phubbing? If you need it spelled out, the official definition is: The act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention.

It is a new year - so will 2025 find you as a trendy phubber? Or will you be counter-cultural and be present to God, your kids, your spouse, your family, your friends, your community, even the strangers and Giant Pickle ladies around you? By January 1st, 2026 imagine how many more touch-points with people you will have had, the less stress you may feel, the amount of laughter you've experienced, and the TIME you've invested in those around you. Even more...you just might have heard God speaking to you more! Give it a whirl...be a connector and not a phubber in 2025!

PS - Giant Pickles are pretty good...I like them at the ballpark! 😉

#holyathome #lcafamilydiscipleship #lca2324 #chefsprinklesatwork

[coldthingenthusiast]

Random Facts

On September 18 2017, Ben Tetzlaff, a 17-year-old from Pennsylvania, recorded two holes-in-one during the same round of golf at Iron Country Club- beating odds of 67 million to one.

The Chinese city of Xi’an has created a special path designed for “phubbers”-people who walk while staring at their phones.

The town of Colma, California, outside of San Francisco, has more dead people than living people. The population of the dead is speculated to be around 1.5 million, outnumbering the living almost 1,000 to 1.

The beach on Budelli, a tiny Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea, has pink sand thanks to the presence of crushed coral, crystals, and the skeletons of dead shrimp.

The average January temperature in the Siberian village of Oymyakon is -50°C (-58°F). It was so cold in January 2018 that the village’s thermometer broke after recording -62°C (-80°F).

[gosinobus]

Practical Chinese

Practical Chinese is the starting point for zero-based Chinese learners. There are 100 + everyday words and 20 + high-frequency sentence patterns. The course is in the form of“Knowledge + culture”. It is easy and fun. Ten Chinese communication scenes, simulate the actual communication scenes, experience the charm of Chinese, and bid farewell to“Ineffective learning”. Make sure you learn the most useful knowledge of Chinese in the shortest time.

Practical Chinese is a course composed of ten daily Chinese communication scenes, such as Pinyin, taking a taxi, asking for directions, asking for help, money, hotel, health, subway, ordering and shopping. It is suitable for learners with zero Chinese foundation to get a preliminary understanding of daily Chinese expressions and common Chinese culture. The course here covers a wide range of content, pays attention to practicality, and can help zero-based learners learn the most and most extensive Chinese knowledge in a limited time.

Best Way to Start Learning Mandarin

In the network era of efficient learning, phubbers can use the time to brush their mobile phones to

Learn Chinese from every aspect of your life first, because it will make learning Chinese easy and easy, and it will open the door to a whole new language quickly. After work and life, we have a lot of fragments of time, that can be used to learn Chinese, the choice of online learning is more in line with our busy fast-paced life today.

Language learning requires daring to speak, so you need an enthusiastic and professional putonghua course teacher.

"All things are difficult before they start", and many people give up learning Chinese before they open the door to it. Yes, but Chinese learning is difficult and interesting. Many people can't stand the boredom and difficulty at the beginning. At this time, you need a good Chinese teacher to help you find the right learning method, let you see an interesting Chinese world, and make your Chinese learning more efficient.

Understanding Chinese traditional folk customs and culture is particularly important in Chinese learning.

As we all know, there are great cultural differences between China and the West, and there are many things we should pay attention to in language, diet, travel and so on. The words, sentence patterns and grammar in the book can only tell you how to take the exam. It is very important to really use Chinese in life, or to travel and live in China, and to master the relevant Chinese cultural background and some small knowledge of traditional culture.

Practical Chinese Course Advantages

Simulate the actual communication scene so that you can communicate with your teacher in Chinese in class.

If you have a travel plan to visit China, it's perfect to learn Practical Chinese. There are words and sentences analysis and dialogue examples in each lesson of this course, which can fully practice the use of sentences in different environments, learn Chinese in situations, and experience the fun of Chinese tourism in advance. Say goodbye to the boring of traditional Chinese learning, and say goodbye to "ineffective learning" that can't really be used.

Chinese classroom with rich content of "knowledge points+cultural points"

As we all know, there are great cultural differences between China and the West, and there are many things we should pay attention to in language, diet, travel and so on. Therefore, we have solved this problem for everyone in Practical Chinese. Each lesson has cultural navigation, or Chinese cultural knowledge or life skills, to better help you get familiar with the Chinese language environment. Help you easily avoid cultural embarrassment, let you speak authentic Chinese, and surprise your Chinese friends with your Chinese expression and ability.

[themancorialist]

Lever Street, Manchester.

[foxwork-oinbasu]

Daily conversation with friends

[hiholin]

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[7dilili]

Picture Sharing---

What do you usually do on the bus or subway to work?

phone? books? in a daze? or other...

[hi-yibo]

20210312 WANGYIBO |SKG：The Double-Second Festival （Dragon Heads-raising Day） Full of vitality, good luck is coming! Put on the SKG to relax and live a healthy life without being a phubber. SKG "Heads-up Festival" campaign

[amyloh36]

XiaoMi Powerbanks

Xiao Mi is actually a well-known Chinese electronic company that established in Malaysia. Xiao Mi provided a high quality electrical device with low price.

TARGET AUDIENCE Xiao Mi target middle class audience. People who want to buy premium device but have limited budget.

Demographic Segmentation - Middle class audience Psychographic Segmentation - Low brand consideration when it comes to power bank

PROBLEM People will not consider about brand when it comes to power bank. If the power bank is durable, they won’t consider changing to another brand, they will stick to the one.

OBJECTIVE To make Xiao Mi power bank as the “bench mark” in the power bank field.

BIG IDEA To highlight the reliability of Xiao Mi Power Bank as we are providing the most secure electrical product when it comes to power bank that is able to ensure the safer use power bank. “Safe Mi, Safe You”

Billboard

Billboard ads are one of the essential platforms for electrical device ads especially in Malaysia. Malaysia is well known in having traffic jam, so people will have time to look at billboard advertising. The billboard ads will be placed at the roadside which is near to shopping malls that have the outlets of XiaoMI. The billboard ads for XiaoMI is using the minimal design to make sure people will not missed out the idea of “Save MI, Save You” as the description of XiaoMI Power bank. An illustration of a battery to represent the power bank and a shield to represent the safety to describe XiaoMI Power bank has the safety guarantee when you are using it to charge your electrical device.

Social Media (Instagram)

Our target audience which live in the urban area will often access to social media. It’s a platform that we are able to create an interaction with them. We will be creating an ads on Instagram. We will be doing a swipeable post on the Instagram. The first page of the ads post is a caution sign to seek attention of the public. Then, the second page of the post will be the subline “Let MI secure you” to highlight the key purpose of Xiao MI safer power bank use.

Guerilla Ads

We will be doing the floor projection mapping ads. It will be projected in shopping malls and subway station. The reason of doing this is to attract the public attention to the ads of XiaoMI Power bank. Shopping malls and subway station in Malaysia own the crowd. Thus, placing the ads on the floor to seek the public attention, especially to those smartphone addict phubbers will definitely see the ads. The design of the ads is to make sure people will not miss out the idea of “Save MI, Save You” as the description of XiaoMI Power bank which they are able to charge their device with no worries.

Video ads (youtube)

Scene 1: A person is watching TV. Scene 2: He saw news about pirated power banks exploding case. Scene 3: He felt asleep at the sofa and left his phone charging with XIAOMI power bank. Scene 4: He dreamed about power bank exploding cases. Scene 5: He was shocked and he woke up from his dream. Scene 6: When he sees his phone is still charging safely with the XIAOMI power bank, he feels relieve and smile.

Video advertising is another essential platform for promoting an electrical device. The reason we chose to do video is most of the people now will be more interested in watching videos or moving object so it will eventually engage them more. The length of the video will be 35 seconds. We try to keep it short and direct to make sure our target audience will not get bored of it. The video will be published on TV and Youtube. The video will be executed with a man was watching the news about the power bank exploding incident. Then, he slept when his phone was charging with Xiao MI Powerbank and he dreamt about the terrify power bank exploding case and he got shocked. He woke up and see his phone was charging safely with Xiao MI Power bank. This is to bring out the message “Safe MI, Safe You” of the MI brand that ensure the safety use of electrical device and is able to charge with no worries.

[jcusnetworksba1002july2019]

Why are we so easily conquered by social media?

Figure 1. Why Social Media Is So Addictive (Lowery, 2013)

The first social media I used was QQ in 2008. I remembered that at that time, QQ could only chat, and only chat on the computer. But many people and I still stayed up all night to chat. As for what I talked about, I couldn't remember now, but I was really obsessed at that time. With the progress of network and computer technology, there are more and more social media emerging, such as Facebook, Twitter, Momo, WeChat, Weibo, Huya, Douyu...In addition, the emergence of the mobile app also makes more and more people are no longer staying up all night in front of the computer, and start to become "phubbers". Social media, it seems, successfully tethers us to the nearest places to radiation and makes us happy there. What is it about social media that makes us so easily conquered?

Figure 2. Your Highness Qiao Biluo's real appearance (left) and one of her filtered faces (right) from an earlier livestream on Douyu (Shah & Allen, 2019)

Social media allows us to create new selves. On social media, people talk more about themselves in order to let others know them better (Seiter, 2019). The reality of life is gone, so people always leave regrets in their reality. However, the online world is different. People want to present a brand-new self on social media. Here their real-life can be cut and embellished to look like the ideal, such as a picture, which you can be processed into the way you want, like Figure 2. Social media satisfy people's vanity and make the distant dream, such as wealth, fame (of course, these are fictional), appear in front of his eyes. You can put the pictures together as you want just like driving a sports car, or dressing in jewelry, or traveling to Dubai, and then uploaded to the social media such as Facebook or WeChat, used to show off, or deceive those friends or relatives who do not see for a long time.

Social media can also help us strengthen our social connections. Life will be not only in a circle of origin, but there are also too many places to go. We always care about every dignitary in our side or friends and relatives on our way forward. Social media has certainly made it easier for us to connect with them, not just for ease of use, but for low or no cost. We can also contact some new friends who have not appeared on our side before. For example, if you go abroad, you can contact your compatriots or the country embassy through social media to ask for help, which cannot be done by mobile phone.

Social media also facilitates the unknown world. Time and technology have endowed social media with more functions and applications. Social media which is a good tool for measuring people's life satisfaction, allows us to express our opinions on current events and express our approval and dissatisfaction with real-life (Wilczek, 2018). In China, WeChat, in addition to chat, can also be used for online shopping, face to face payment, transfer money, car booking, even donation... But in the backside of these interests, there are always hidden too many risks and fraud, such as ransomware virus, fake shopping website, financial fraud...however, those disadvantages don’t seem to persuade people to stop from relying on social media.

In short, social media seems to allow us to live in the virtual world as we want to be, so how can we not be conquered, how can we not rely on. However, there are always some things missing in the virtual world, such as sincerity, down-to-earth, thus, it's important to balance real life with the virtual world of social media (Coutterand, 2018). You can take a nap in the virtual world, but don't lose sleep there.

   References:

Coutterand, L. (2018, November 8). Social media addiction [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5bC-SLvb4

Lowery, T. (2013, August 28). Why Social Media Is So Addictive (And Why Marketers Should Care) [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/why-social-media-is-so-addictive-and-why-marketers-should-care-022276.php

Seiter, C. (2019, January 18). The psychology of social media: Why we like, comment, and share online. Buffer. Retrieved from https://buffer.com/resources/psychology-of-social-media

Shah, D. & Allen, K. (2019, July 30). Your Highness Qiao Biluo's real appearance (left) and one of her filtered faces (right) from an earlier livestream on Douyu [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49151042

Wilczek, B. (2018). Media use and life satisfaction: The moderating role of social events. International Review of Economics, 65(2), 157-184. doi:10.1007/s12232-017-0290-7

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#1yrago Chinese city has a "zombie walkway" for slow-walking smartphone users

The city of Xi'an in Shaanxi province has designated one of the sidewalks on Yanta Road for "phubbers" -- slow-walking smartphone users who shuffle while they read and text.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/11/hey-im-texting-here.html

[gosinobus]

Practical Chinese

https://www.gosinobus.com/practical-chinese/

Practical Chinese is the starting point for zero-based Chinese learners. There are 100 + everyday words and 20 + high-frequency sentence patterns. The course is in the form of“Knowledge + culture”. It is easy and fun. Ten Chinese communication scenes, simulate the actual communication scenes, experience the charm of Chinese, and bid farewell to“Ineffective learning”. Make sure you learn the most useful knowledge of Chinese in the shortest time.

 Practical Chinese is a course composed of ten daily Chinese communication scenes, such as Pinyin, taking a taxi, asking for directions, asking for help, money, hotel, health, subway, ordering and shopping. It is suitable for learners with zero Chinese foundation to get a preliminary understanding of daily Chinese expressions and common Chinese culture. The course here covers a wide range of content, pays attention to practicality, and can help zero-based learners learn the most and most extensive Chinese knowledge in a limited time.

 Best Way to Start Learning Mandarin

In the network era of efficient learning, phubbers can use the time to brush their mobile phones to

Learn Chinese from every aspect of your life first, because it will make learning Chinese easy and easy, and it will open the door to a whole new language quickly. After work and life, we have a lot of fragments of time, that can be used to learn Chinese, the choice of online learning is more in line with our busy fast-paced life today.

 Language learning requires daring to speak, so you need an enthusiastic and professional putonghua course teacher.

"All things are difficult before they start", and many people give up learning Chinese before they open the door to it. Yes, but Chinese learning is difficult and interesting. Many people can't stand the boredom and difficulty at the beginning. At this time, you need a good Chinese teacher to help you find the right learning method, let you see an interesting Chinese world, and make your Chinese learning more efficient.

 Understanding Chinese traditional folk customs and culture is particularly important in Chinese learning.

As we all know, there are great cultural differences between China and the West, and there are many things we should pay attention to in language, diet, travel and so on. The words, sentence patterns and grammar in the book can only tell you how to take the exam. It is very important to really use Chinese in life, or to travel and live in China, and to master the relevant Chinese cultural background and some small knowledge of traditional culture.

 Practical Chinese Course Advantages

Simulate the actual communication scene so that you can communicate with your teacher in Chinese in class.

If you have a travel plan to visit China, it's perfect to learn Practical Chinese. There are words and sentences analysis and dialogue examples in each lesson of this course, which can fully practice the use of sentences in different environments, learn Chinese in situations, and experience the fun of Chinese tourism in advance. Say goodbye to the boring of traditional Chinese learning, and say goodbye to "ineffective learning" that can't really be used.

 Chinese classroom with rich content of "knowledge points+cultural points"

As we all know, there are great cultural differences between China and the West, and there are many things we should pay attention to in language, diet, travel and so on. Therefore, we have solved this problem for everyone in Practical Chinese. Each lesson has cultural navigation, or Chinese cultural knowledge or life skills, to better help you get familiar with the Chinese language environment. Help you easily avoid cultural embarrassment, let you speak authentic Chinese, and surprise your Chinese friends with your Chinese expression and ability.

[legodoy]

Foco, distrações e phubbing

 Já ouviu falar em phubbing? É um termo que veio da mistura das palavras phone e snubbing (do inglês, telefone e esnobar). Phubbers – praticantes de phubbing – são pessoas que se mostram altamente sociáveis e engajadas na internet, mas, pessoalmente, acabam passando o tempo que poderiam dedicar a quem está à sua volta mexendo no celular. É importante reforçar: phubber não é alguém que gosta muito de ficar no celular, mas alguém que acaba se prejudicando em suas relações pessoais, amizades, estudo, trabalho e em inúmeros outros aspectos por não conseguir se desconectar para fazer outras atividades.

O que é foco?

 Ter foco é ter um objetivo, estabelecer um planejamento, ter disciplina e persistência para atingir as metas e alcançar o que se pretende. Foco é constituído por planejamento, disciplina e continuidade. 

 A possibilidade de estarmos conectados o tempo todo com nossos smartphones e tablets tem nos deixado mais dispersivos. Todos esses recursos reduzem nossa capacidade de concentração. Na grande maioria das vezes a falta de autocontrole, insensibilidade e falta de força de vontade são causadas pela distração.

 Como manter o foco e minimizar as distrações?

 Bloqueie distrações online, divida grandes tarefas, reserve um tempo para fazer um intervalo, trabalhe com pessoas produtivas.

[we-tokyoboy]

http://www.weshare.hk/tokyoboy/articles/4757196

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