Do you use your phone to avoid people?

[Amy666]

Haha yes! I thought i was one among few but seems like there are plenty.. I usually use my headphones to avoid people, but in case i don't have them then i pretend to be talking on phone to avoid conversations which normally are longer than short. But 80% of time i run out of luck, people come up to my face and talk even though i seem to be buried in something else and i couldn't avoid but be rude saying I'm on phone will catch up with you later, yet again the glances will be on and finally i end up running hurriedly as if someone(imaginary charecter) on phone is in emergency. Does this happen to everyone? Or am i just toooooo unlucky

 

[Cuchculan]

Not a smartphone user at all. Old school flip open phone. So no using phones to avoid people for me.

 

[Lanchparty7]

I do for sure. I am allowed to use headphones at work so I have them in my ear at all times (even if I am not listening to something at the moment) to avoid conversations with co-workers.

 

[Izthewiz]

I don't use a cell phone.
I really only have one in the glove box in case of emergency.
So yes

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

I actually have more social anxieties when I'm talking to people on the phone than I do while talking with people face to face, for some reason.

 

[Joshua1]

I've noticed that when I go to parties or even to a restaurant to eat that people use their phones to avoid talking to each other. I do this at parties to look busy and not pitiful and alone. So I was wondering if anyone here uses their phones to avoid talking to people in a public setting? Or if I'm the only one.

We must break out of that habit. We should be using our phones when going out with family. Phones and social media can destroy relationships.