Snombies or Generation Head Down: when Smartphone Addiction Transforms Our Social Behavior

In the age of hyperconnexion, a new term has emerged to refer to an increasingly widespread behaviour: snombies, contraction of smartphones and zombies. This word describes people who, absorbed by their phone, move (on foot, driving a car, a bike a motorcycle) or interact in public space like zombies, separated from their immediate environment and often unconscious of what surrounds them. Head-down generation: an urban phenomenon of concern Snom…