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"Dear Rachel,My friend texts all the time when we\u2019re hanging out, and it makes me feel like she always has something better to do. Should I feel left out? - Asia, 14I feel you. It\u2019s... _Dear Rachel,\n\nMy friend texts all the time when we\u2019re hanging out, and it makes me feel like she always has something better to do. Should I feel left out? - Asia, 14_\n\nI feel you. It\u2019s incredibly annoying when you\u2019re trying to have a conversation and she suddenly checks her phone. Even worse when she looks back up and says, &amp;quot;Sorry, what were you saying?&amp;quot;\n\nI just had lunch with a guy who kept checking his phone while we talked. It made me feel that not only what I had to say was less important, but that I was, too. I wanted to bang him on the head with the ketchup bottle and be like, &amp;quot;Hello??? Lunch meeting? Me?&amp;quot;\n\nI think we text while hanging out (TWH) because we\u2019re so addicted to feeling connected. It\u2019s true that girls love their friends, but TWH is about our obsession with needing to feel involved, loved, and paid attention to. That little ping or vibration of an incoming message is like a quick hit of feeling connected. That\u2019s why there\u2019s such an overpowering urge to check the message. I\u2019m pretty sure people don\u2019t think about what they \u2019re doing. They\u2019re feeding the need. It\u2019s not personal. But that doesn\u2019t make it okay."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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