To think it is very rude to have your mobile phone on the table when out/having dinner?

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I've never witnessed this among my own friends/family but there was a video on Facebook of a father being fed up with his sons constantly checking their mobiles so he gets out an old-school typewriter and starts typing away.

Who would put up with such behaviour. If someone was constantly checking their phone while with me I would walk out. I would assume they wouldn't be bothered as my company was obviously boring them.

Haven't rtft but is it a generational thing? I'm 25, if I go out for a meal or whatever with friends then our phones are usually on the table, every now and again we'll have a flick through, if someone messages us we reply, we don't think it's rude, we all do it. But we don't have hour long phone calls or full on conversations via messages or anything but we do use it. To us it's normal. People older than us might be more used to not having one. I dunno.

Yes, I think it's a generational thing. Not giving your full attention to the people you're actually with in real life is seen as rude by many of us. Perhaps we're all old or perhaps we just think it's possible to spend an hour or so in the company of friends without checking to see what's going on on our phones.

Just saw this...