Step away from your phone: the new rules of conversation

Why speak face to face when you can put it all in a text? Oliver Burkeman on reviving the lost art of real-time communicationYoung people today, along with their Snapchat and their selfies and their sexting, apparently engage in a practice known as “phubbing”. According to Sherry Turkle, the American sociologist of digital life, this involves maintaining eye contact with one person while text-messaging another. “My students tell me they do it all the time and that it’s no