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Have you ever been phubbed?  Have you ever been telling your friend a story and they’re just staring at your phone?  Have you ever been walking down the street and you saw someone you didn’t talk to so you act like you’re on your phone?  Well this is phubbing.

Phubbing is a combination of phone and snubbing. It refers to a person interacting with their phone rather than interacting with another human being. Phubbing is on the rise and people are trying to raise awareness about it.

One group actually created a website called Stop Phubbing and you can find ways to stop phubbing.  On this website you can find a lot of statistics on phubbing, like, if phubbing was a plague it would decimate six Chinas. It follows with this tidbit: 97% of people say food tastes worse when they are the victim of phubbing.

The BluePrint talked to some victims of phubbing.

Edyn Convery, a senior, has been a victim.  Her abuser is Saige McElwain.

“I’m tired of getting phubbed,” said Edyn.

Student teacher Ms. Pecile was a victim of phubbing while taking classes at Pen State.

“This girl I didn’t like was walking toward me on campus.  I wanted to be nice to her and say hi, and right before I did, she pulled out her phone and phubbed me,” said Ms. Pecile.

We have also talked to those sick phubbers.

Senior Caroline Taylor is a phubber, well, because she can, while fellow senior Revel Southwell says he snubs with his phone sheerly for the pleasure of watching it anger people.

If the stats are true, and 87 percent of teens would rather text than talk face to face, we have a serious problem on our hands.

The Stop  Phubbing website sugests going as far as staging an intervention for those friends for whom phubbing has become a serious problem.

The site also has downloads available for anti-phubbing posters and other ideas to discourage phubbing in social settings, like weddings.