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Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor

A new nightclub is opening and introducing a strict no phones on the dancefloor policy.

Amber's director Jeremy Abbott told the BBC the club made the decision because "we really want the music and the experience to be front and centre", but the issue is being debated on social media. Some posted on Instagram, external concerns that clubs could suffer as social media videos of their night act as free adverts, while others welcomed the move as "partying with privacy". But Dr Lee Hadlington, senior lecturer in cyberpsychology at Nottingham Trent University, says for those clubbers, "part of their enjoyment is to document their night in terms of photos and memories".

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