Do you think it's rude when...

Hi. It definitely annoys me. I just don't understand why some people could be so rude texting/calling on mobile phones while spending time or meeting personally with others. I really find it rude because there you are - physically present - and yet they seemed to be so interested on other people out there. This behavior irritates me that I stop talking until that person drops the mobile phone. Worst, I ask the other person to take the call outside or finish the texting before we continue talking/discussing.

Hi snafushe! Yeah, I totally find it rude when people are texting when I'm are spending time with them. There's actually like a hidden code/rule or something that when a person is having dinner in a restaurant or anywhere or just spending time with someone, he/she should keep his cellphone in his/her pocket/purse and not text during the entire duration of dinner or spending time. I do agree that it would seem like the person is not interested in you or something if he/she keeps on texting while you're together. Its utterly rude.

Hello there beautiful. If some guy is doing this to you, he certainly doesn't deserve your company ;) What i am saying is that the person that wants to be your "lover" or future "lover" is doing this from the start, or even later, there must be something wrong with him and you should talk to him about it. If this is from a friend, you could tell him to stop in the way of a joke or something, perhaps he /she will take the hint and drop that phone already.

I totally agree with your comment. I don't think its very polite to be texting in the middle of a conversation or during a meal. It just doesn't seem the person care about you and would rather be somewhere else. I just set my phone to vibrate if I am with someone and text back at a later time.

This is the unfortunate combination of technology and multi-tasking. Where everybody thinks they can spend time with people, while communicating with others thru hand-helds. I think it's rude, and they should have the decency to acknowledge this.

I think it is rude for a person to keep texting while you are trying to spend time with. Like some of my male friends I hang out with does that to me. I want there full attention not half of it. But if I did they would have something to say about that..

i wouldn't say it is rude. perhaps, let's say in a party, going to one corner to check your phone for any important messages is fine. or even takign a minute or two to answer a couple of text messages or even writing a quick one to be sent to a loved one or family member is not rude and completely excusable. however, spending the whole time while in the party texting is rude. just my 2 cents.

oh thats definately rude. its like they'd rather be talking with someone else then spending time with you. i would just tell them, if you got someplace else or someone else you'd rather be with, then just freakin' go!!

Ok picture this.... You are having a good time hanging out & all of a sudden your company puts a magazine in front of them and starts reading. The whole evening randomly doing that even while you were talking--that would be considered rude. Thats what you could do if you wanted to give them a taste of their own medicine. Usually the person that is doing all the texting isn't aware that its rude. The worst part is ...Once a text conversation is started they now feel pressured on responding to whoever their texting.

Well, I got annoyed by that before but now I feel ordinary already. I've been seeing people texting almost all the time even a taxi driver while driving!

i got this situation before, she is not actually my close friend, because i'm kind person i helped her to finish her papers but instead of helping me to sort some files she just keep on texting for an hour and i've been talking to her for the period on time she answered me yup! yeah! so what i did is i made excuse to go to tiolet, of course she said "yeah"..then i never came back....

i do not know is that right feel of the personal

Actually when I was with my friends all the time and they would talk to me and I did not hear them because I was too busy texting and they were getting annoyed with it.So I decided to stop that well actually my daddy took my cellphone away because I would text to much.I guess I deserved that,but I do think that it's rude when people do that because you are spending one on one with that person and it shows that you are not really interested in seeing what they have to say.Which is a very bad thing to do in the first place.