People texting while with someone else

I was at my parents’ home for a family meeting. I saw my sister-in-law on her table, my brother-in-law on his phone, my older niece on her tablet, my partner also showing stuff from his phone. My dad with the TV loud.
I thought, what the f@ck! I go off. I don’t want this.

I’m also a person who doesn’t belong to the phones era. So, I guess I must be outdated. Indeed, I use the phone only for short messages with people I’m gonna meet or see soon, emergency facts, to keep communication with people I met from other countries and mainly for what I always love to do, listening to the radio. Now, podcasts. Write down the shopping list. Look for a location.
I can’t deny the advantages of having a big amount of information in hand wherever you are, but out of that, I would never look at the phone when I’m interacting with a person. I want to be focussed on this event.
I silence my phone at the medical center, meetings of work, lectures. I consider a lack of respect to let your phone sounds in some kind of places.

I still remember when I was in a vet clinic for an emergency with my dog and another client’s phone’s sounds ( not a normal sound) the sound of guns shooting. I got so scared. I was about to slap his f@acking face.

I don’t think all people who do these kinds of things are disrespectful. Many they are but I think some of them are only distract.

Edit: I forgot to tell that I also avoid to chat when I am online, with more than one person online. If ever happen that possibility, I say to one of the persons that I will chat with him/her later. Neither I feel uncomfortable nor I see it respectful.

Yep I agree.

Yep no matter how dangerous texting and driving is, people will always do it.

Thank you, and I like coming here to have conversations with like minded people without judgment.

Yeah it’s annoying when people are constantly on their phones, I grew up without a phone as well. I agree some people can be disrespectful of other people’s time, they’re too focused on themselves.

Yes, it seems as they are too much focussed on themselves. They like receive a like or an instant reply, when putting the pics and texts Facebook or wherever to show your life is so marvellous when you are not giving a $hit about the people who are there, face to face with you, enjoying your spouse, kids or friends.

I see it as a matter of priorities. You can put all these pics when you have a free-time. Meanwhile enjoy the situation.
What business (Facebook, Instagram, google and so on and on and on) wants? Make itself a priority for you. You attention along all the time. But you have a brain, use it or you will lose it.

This topic is so interesting!
I think it’s at the top of the topic we are facing now in our societies. It has so many to do with manipulation, individual freedom, education to know how to face to it. So many factors.
Who pulls the strings!
I do really feel pity when I see someone crossing the road or walking on the street writing on the phone. I swear you. I feel pity.
I see it disrespectful. Many times some people was about to stamp on my doggies ( I was aware so I didn’t allow it) but I feel pity because I think their life must be so empty. They are walking in a street with people, trees, fresh air and they are missing all of it.
Not mention that if someone do something to a doggie of mine, at least their phone will go to floor.

Yep I agree, social media should be used during free time, not while interacting with others.

My first little phone was a Verizon coup. The next two were sliders. Now I have a stupid Google pixel 3. It's frustrating and I don't care for it.

Yeah the older phones make texting a bit slower.

Yes, yes and yes.
Oh what a picture! I went to my mother’s home last Saturday for teatime (as English people say). Oh my god! My brother-in-law with his phone. My mother’s partner with the TV on. I didn’t see the time to go off.
My nephew and my niece, when they came to my apartment, we have a nice time. We talk about different things, we joke and play with the doggies or another game.

I have lots of arguments with my partner because he’s most of the time, thinking about what video or pic he’s gonna post on Instagram. I don’t find any sense in doing so at all. So, we are arguing about it all the time. I admit his dedication to online stuff has been giving us lots of problems for a long time.
Many times it feels as if I were talking to the wall. And it’s not funny at all.
Then, if I reply to a message by a friend, he gets angry and jealousy. When, indeed, I always put a time apart to be online and I avoid it interfere with our time.

Slightly off topic, another thing that annoys me is people walking along texting or reading their phones. Out for just over an hour yesterday and nearly collided with three people because they weren't watching where they were going.

Wow some people are truly hypocritical. Sorry you have to deal with that.

Oh yes I hate that too. People need to pay attention.

Enough people go absent-mind when walking (I sometimes have to be very cautious for anyone step on my doggies), add it them now the phones.

Maybe, these people who are all the time on the phone are very sociable and I can’t understand them because I’m introvert, and as you can be in contact and socialise with many people on the phone moving one single finger...but I wonder at to what point this is healthy to be behind a screen for so long.

Thus, it’s pretty dangerous. You have to cross roads, the lady with her baby in the trolley, the old person with a chair, cross bike ways and on and on.

Yeah that can happen.

Yeah there is a point where it gets to be unhealthy and dangerous.