My Friend is Addicted to Facebook

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@sidnya

She does not pay attention in class and she no longer participates in conversations fully. When she does, she is either showing me a meme or a animal video, or looking up from her phone saying, “huh”.

Well… this seems like a case of the Phone Zombie, so I’ll bring up that awareness campaign we defined:

Phone Zombies Campaign: Anchoring the term "Phone Zombies" in common language

Via LinkedIn I found a share by @andrewmurraydunn (Thanks, Andrew) to a Wall-Street Journal article about Apple’s new Screen Time app that is integrated in iOS 12. Reading the comments of the WSJ article I came upon some terminology being used to indicate those highly addictive people that are constantly absorbed in their smartphone. The term was: “Phone Zombies” “A person who gives preference to their smartphone and social media, even in social settings and in the company of others, which res…