How does it make you feel when people around you use their cellular phones
By RealIolo
@RealIolo (1854)
United States
March 20, 2007 9:58am CST
to escape or avoid dealing with a social situation?
I mean seriously! Socialize! Talk with the people around you!
But there seems to be more people who behave like this. They take out their cell and start texting or talking to someone. That way they can avoid any conversation or interaction with anyone around them. The cellular phone provides them with an excuse to completely avoid everyone around them.
Do you find this rude? How does it make you feel about this person?
Maybe I am the one with the issues here, but I want to know what others think and perhaps I am not alone in this. Please don't patronize me on this however. I didn't start this just to hear everyone say "Yeah, I hate that too." unless it is REALLY true.
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2 responses
@lyriox (16)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I don't understand how a cellphone could upset someone else, past inappropriate conversation. Quite frankly, there's very few situations that anybody is ever in where they are really disturbed by someone answering a call on a device that they pay monthly for for the sole purpose of communication with other people. I really don't mind it at all, what I find incredibly annoying is being on the phone with someone else while they carry on another conversation; having the person on the cellphone right next to you at least you know they are on it, when someone else is talking with you on it it's easy to forget, I suppose.
@RealIolo (1854)
• United States
4 Jul 07
Ok, a friend of yours comes to visit you but instead of talking with you they make a call to someone else and spend the next half an hour talking this this other person. Then when they finally hangup a call comes in which they answer and then spend another forty five minutes talking with this caller. How are you feeling about now.
Next, when that conversation is over they announce that they are out of time and must go.
Why did they even come over? So you could sit and listen to them talk with someone on the phone?
Everyone seems to have a cell glued to their heads these days.
@lyriox (16)
• United States
4 Jul 07
Sounds to me like you're getting really defensive, and really uptight about an issue that's not even that big of a deal. If somebody wants to come over to my house and answer their phone, they can feel free to do so. We can always talk later -- maybe I'll call them.
@lizasese (89)
• Philippines
4 May 07
That I say is one of the consequences of progress. Especially, here in our country wherein almost 80% of our people have cellular phones, you sometimes see in a public vehicle, almost all the people use their cellphones. It is good that we can use this gadget to communicate and get intouch with other people even though they are in a far place, but, as you say, people do not realize that through this same gadget, we forget that we have other people around us that we need to reach out too. Evein in a family, children, instead of talking to their family members, are too engrossed with texting.
Sad, but true....
