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It’s been talked about for some time and now it’s being introduced albeit slowly. What are we talking about? Paying with your Smart phone and Face Recognition Technology. If you live or shop in Richmond, Surrey there are a few places you can use this new technology right now.

All you need is a Smart phone and the appropriate App – Tap-2-Pay or In-App. Then head into one of the stores accepting this in Richmond and you can pay using your phone. You find the store on the App and login on your Smart phone. When you go to pay, the retailer can see your name and that you want to pay via PayPal. That’s it done. No need to carry your wallet or purse around anymore. You can just use your Smart phone.

Our phones will definitely become more precious than ever. You’ll want to lose yours even less than ever as it will now have all this added information on it.

PayPal reassure everyone that your account and banking details are as secure as they are when you contact PayPal any other way. The App also uses face recognition technology so hopefully anyone else trying to access this App won’t be recognised and therefore won’t be able to operate it.

What do you think?

N B It is easy to set up an online PayPal account which debits the money from you bank account if you have no funds in the PayPal account.

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What Do You Think About Phubbing?

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What Do You Think About Phubbing?

Do you phub or do you know others that do? Lots of celebs do including Victoria Beckham, Rihanna, Jay-Z and Will-i-am. Phubbing is the bad habit of ‘snubbing someone in favour of your phone’. In other words continuing to text or tweet when you are in the company of others.

You’ll find people ‘phubbing’ as it’s been labelled, here, in the US and Australia mostly. Well not surprising really as in most of these countries more than 50% of the population owns smartphones. So you can imagine how many of us experience phone-neglect!

It has prompted a young Australian graduate to start a ‘Stop Phubbing’ campaign. The campaign has gone viral – after all everyone knows (or is) a phubber. The stopphubbing website crashed earlier this week with so much attention.

The campaigner Alex Haigh says on the site, ‘Phubbing is rife throughout the world. Just imagine couples of the future sitting in silence. Relationships based on status updates.’

To be fair, the site has many ‘faux statistics’ about phubbing and phubbers but I challenge you not to smile as you read them. And not to recognise circumstances when we have all been or seen phubbers.

In a more serious vein, the University of Exeter has conducted research about how the presence of a mobile phone can effect face-to-face communication. The study found that even just the presence of a phone on a table when you meet a new person can have a negative affect on getting to know one another.

Will you join the campaign or continue to update your status?

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