Today playing mobile phone between the process of face-to-face communication becomes a new phenomenon. In the perspective of symbolic interaction, this study put this phenomenon as a new interactive context rather than a "problem". As a gesture, playing the phone is to give a signal of leavingtoothers in the interaction, and this signalcauses a corresponding response from the others. As a result, playing the phone becomes an interactive symbol, the self can be temporarily set aside off face-to-face interaction.This attitude can become a shared symbol and context, due to the misappropriation and conversion of traditional face-to-face interaction rules,and the mobile phone becoming the border in the interactive process of self and others. The presence rather than communication becomes the new situation of interpersonal communication.However, in the process of alienation between self and others, the Chinese relations of acquaintances have been confirmed and strengthened by playingmobile phone.