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How to avoid talking to people
Pretend to be on your phone.
Fake a phone call or appear to be texting when someone approaches you for a social conversation. Pretending to be in the middle of communicating with someone else will deter others from engaging in conversation without being rude.

Available options:
1). Try to simulate the phone call or text as best as possible. Avoid eye-contact, pace back and forth, or quickly let the individual you are on a very important call or need to finish an urgent text.
2). Hold your phone in one hand so that it's at arm's length. Your hand should look like the end of a lollipop.
3). Walking backwards or pretending to be on another computer, for example, will raise the chance of people not thinking it's a conversation and won't be able to talk to you with their phones. Some people will begin to see this as a nothing but fake behavior and will not want to talk to you.
4). If it is really a social conversation, pretend like the speaker/client is there. If the caller is not your boss, pretend you are in another room or in another part of your office instead.
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