One of the potential reasons for choosing these elements could be to distract the audience’s attention from the source of the message, or in this specific case, it might be to draw the attention away from the complete lack of a credible source or any sort of evidence that would back up the above mentioned claims. There is interplay between realistic situations that might actually take place (e.g. making a status update, purchasing music) and “assumed” scenarios (e.g. text someone better than you, lol at a joke that isn’t yours) which are meant to instigate and to inflict more personal “damage”, caused by “phubbers”, among the audience. This means that people that had been “victims” of “phubbing” should take it more personally, as the implied reason could be that their company is not good enough.