How to Get a Friend to Put Away Their Phone Without Being a Jerk

Digital distractions can get in the way of being fully present with the people we love. Here’s how to (politely) do something about it.

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 13, 2021

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Photo by Beth Macdonald on Unsplash

Are we ever exclusively in our friends’ company? Our phones are almost assuredly present and ready to interrupt us with a poorly…

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Nir Eyal
Forge
Writer for

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