What do you call it when you’re out in public with friends but they’re all staring at their own cell phones? A listener from Santa Monica, California, suggests that the word techgether. This is part of a complete episode.
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Techgether can also be called “cellfish” (taken from http://www.boredpanda.com/modern-word-combinations-urban-dictionary/ which has some other great words for modern phenomena like “unkeyboardinated” and “textpectation”