尝试不做低头族

南娄底学区 李 曼

尝试不做低头族

南娄底学区 李 曼

Try not to be a phubberubber

Today first I’d like to introduce a new word“phubber”——“低头族”in Chinese.Iguesssomeofyou haveheard of this word a thousand times.Phubber comes from phubbing. "Phubbing"isa combination of"phone"and"snubbing"to describe thehabitofsnubbingsomeone in favorofamobilephone.

Are you one phubber？If your answer is yes，youmightget interested in the followingnews.

BBC（British BroadcastCorporation）recently did an interesting experiment named“a digital detox”at Tarporley High School.The students in this schoolwere asked togiveup social media tools like Facebook，Snapchat，Instagram，Twitter and video games for aweek.Luckily for the teenagers，they didn’t need tohand in theirphones.

Did the attendees finish their task and how did they feel during thenon-social-mediaweek？Here is the result.

Of the 1，000 pupilswho started the digital detox，around a quarterhave so faradmitted togivingup.And even the students who kept their words admit that though it is bad enough on school days，a weekend without socialmedia is the true challenge.Forexample，15-year-old Georgia isagirlwho isnot totally obsessed with socialmedia and has a normal life.But she stillworried what her friendswould think if she simply disappeared from socialmedia.Seeing thatshehad Snapchatmessages that she could not open had been really hard，but there has been an upside:"I've been looking at newspapers and magazines，"shesays，"and talking tomyparentsmore！"

Do you wanta try to see if you can finish this task too？I betyou can go through thatnotcomfortableweek withoutsocial media.

今天首先给大家介绍一个词“phubber”，中文意思是“低头族”。估计有些同学对这个词非常熟悉。“phubber”来源于“phubbing”，而“phubbing”一词则由“phone”和“snubbing”结合而成，指只顾低头玩手机而忽略他人感受的人。

你是不是低头族的一员？如果答案是“yes”的话，你可能对下面这则新闻感兴趣。

英国广播公司最近在Tarporley高中进行了一项名为“数字排毒”的有趣实验：该实验要求这所学校的学生一个星期内不接触任何社交媒体和电子游戏。幸运的是学生不必上交手机。

实验参与者能完成这项任务吗？他们在这个过程中有何感想？下面就是实验结果。

参与“数字排毒”实验的1000名学生中，有约四分之一选择了放弃。即使坚持下来的学生也承认：相对于上学期间的难熬，周末才是真正的挑战。例如，15岁女孩乔治亚自认对社交媒体不怎么上瘾，平时生活也很有规律。但是她说：“看到Snapchat的信息而不能打开，确实很难受。当然，这么做也有好处，我开始读报、读杂志（这在以前是不可能的），和父母交流的机会也有所增多。”

你想不想也挑战一下自己？尽管过程不那么愉悦，但我相信一周没有社交媒体的生活你一定能坚持下来。

Notes：

snub冷落；忽略

detox排毒；戒瘾

attendee参与者。