Travelling Tip - Please Stop Phubbing

After winters, it’s finally time for a spring vacation. But if that means checking emails while you’re with your better half on a misty mountain or sneaking a peek at your Facebook and Twitter feeds while building sandcastles with your kids, then you may really need a digital time-out.

- Manokriti Bedi

Those who are not very keen travellers, the only reason I know behind their travelling is that they need a break. Break from their routine. Routine of office, home, friends and yes from their phones too!

But somehow, they break all the routines but the only routine they follow even while travelling is of staying stuck to their cell phones.

At home, at a dinner party or even before an official meeting no one talks, because everyone is glued to their phone. It drives me up the wall, because this very important form of socialization and bonding that is nowhere to be seen.

The real threat is that phubbing isn’t only putting a serious dent in personal relationships. Its insidious effects have spread to every area of our daily life.

I would like to share a recent incident, well I had a plan with a friend for travelling, so now while conversing she said, “I will buy a new phone before going, to post pictures on snapchat, Instagram, facebook etc.”