When you repeatedly press a button on a touchscreen phone and your input is ignored you are being "phone ghosted".
The term has been used by some teenage segments of the population who take the failure of the phone to respond as a personal affront, similar in experience to being dissed or ignored by a real person.
The term has been used by some teenage segments of the population who take the failure of the phone to respond as a personal affront, similar in experience to being dissed or ignored by a real person.
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Named for Ivan Pavlov, a Nobel-winning Russian physiologist famous for his work in classical conditioning.
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"In my day, we didn't have car phones and fly why and all that gobbledygook"
"We got a problem with these kids, it's these cellular car phones, they spend so much time on it and they're not getting a good education!"
"Cell phone blocker? Does it work on car phones too?"
"That's it! No more of this car phone nonsense!"
"The only reason we're going there it's because they don't have those cellular car phone things; they better not have those things in Minneapolis!"
"They're not passengers, they're kids from my school! Look at them on their car phones; they better not be flying where we're flying!"
"I don't know honey, but they don't let car phones on a plane."
"I'm going to get away from car phones and the internet and those kinds of things."
"i'M So SiCK oF THeSe CAR PHoNeS !"
"Well what am I supposed to keep track of your car phone for you?"
"IT'S NOT A CAR PHONE!!"
"Car phone, plane phone, whatever."
"Well yeah, his phone, cuz he's always on that car phone! He's always…it's like a part of his body! He's on it in the airplane, he's on it inside the airport, and he's even on it in school!"
Moral of the story: TURN OFF THOSE DAMN CAR PHONES! 🚗 📱
"In my day, we didn't have car phones and fly why and all that gobbledygook"
"We got a problem with these kids, it's these cellular car phones, they spend so much time on it and they're not getting a good education!"
"Cell phone blocker? Does it work on car phones too?"
"That's it! No more of this car phone nonsense!"
"The only reason we're going there it's because they don't have those cellular car phone things; they better not have those things in Minneapolis!"
"They're not passengers, they're kids from my school! Look at them on their car phones; they better not be flying where we're flying!"
"I don't know honey, but they don't let car phones on a plane."
"I'm going to get away from car phones and the internet and those kinds of things."
"i'M So SiCK oF THeSe CAR PHoNeS !"
"Well what am I supposed to keep track of your car phone for you?"
"IT'S NOT A CAR PHONE!!"
"Car phone, plane phone, whatever."
"Well yeah, his phone, cuz he's always on that car phone! He's always…it's like a part of his body! He's on it in the airplane, he's on it inside the airport, and he's even on it in school!"
Moral of the story: TURN OFF THOSE DAMN CAR PHONES! 🚗 📱
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