What is the "head-down tribe"? This is what the head-down tribe is all about

"Phubbing tribe" is a new term that has emerged in recent years. Most people don't quite understand what it means. In fact, "Phubbing tribe" refers to people who often look down at the screen in the subway or bus. Some of them are office workers and some are students, and they are usually young people.

1. What is the "phone-down tribe"?

Phubbing (a term coined by Australian dictionary McCann and Macquarie to describe those who only look down at their phones and ignore their friends and family) refers to those office workers who nowadays "look down at the screen" in the subway and buses. Some look at their phones, while others take out their tablets or laptops to surf the Internet, play games, or watch videos. Everyone wants to fill the fragmented time by staring at the screen. Lowering their heads is a common feature of them, and their gazes and smartphones interact with each other until they are inseparable.

2. The harm of the "phone-dwelling tribe"

1. Safety hazards

Recently, a 17-year-old girl named Shang from Hubei went out to have dinner with her friends. She was walking and playing with her mobile phone. When she was crossing a bridge, she stepped on empty air and fell into a deep pit without guardrails. She died after failed rescue efforts. The lack of guardrails is of course one of the main reasons, but we also want to remind everyone not to play with mobile phones while walking.

This is no longer an individual experience but a group pattern: for example, in April this year, two young people were hit by a car because they were playing with their mobile phones while crossing the road; a few days ago, on a light rail train in San Francisco, some "phone-dwelling people" were so focused on playing with their mobile phones that they didn't even notice that a college student was shot and killed by a murderer next to them.

"Head-down tribe" faces more and more potential risks in social security. If the traffic driver is also one of those people who looks down at his phone, the probability of an accident will increase sharply.

A survey shows that the probability of a car accident when a driver is texting while driving is 23 times that of normal driving, and 2.8 times when making a phone call.

2. Health risks

Looking down to play games for a long time can easily cause dislocation of the cervical joints, and may also cause carpal tunnel syndrome, tenosynovitis, etc. Not only that, long-term addiction to mobile phones not only affects eyesight, but can also easily cause cataracts. If you always lean your head forward to stare at the phone screen, it will shorten the neck muscles, increase the gravity on the cheek area, cause the lower jaw to sag, and cause sagging cheeks, etc.