to be really annoyed with people on phones during a film/tv show

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So on Saturday I visited mate and we decided after a wile to watch a movie, the whole way through the movie she sat texting ppl and payying 0 attention. I have noticed others friends do this too if we ever get together and watch a movie and it greatly annoys me as you may as well watch it yourself-does that annoy anybody else?

No doesn’t bother me, I don’t need them to watch it. I’m happy watching it and others can do as they please.

It would certainly annoy me!

It annoys me in cinemas as the brightness from others screens is really distracting and hurts my eyes.
In their own home no, well unless they keep asking me what's going on.
However if I'm going to meet a friend socially to chat and their on their phone constantly it really irks me as I see it as highly impolite.

Watching TV/ a movie is anti-social anyway, is it not? I guess it depends on whether you were just hanging out as always or if you hadn't seen each other for a while.

''However if I'm going to meet a friend socially to chat and their on their phone constantly it really irks me as I see it as highly impolite.''

but i find this impolite, we were watching the film together with our time and she spends it all chatting to other people, not giving a dam about the film. Sometimes watching stuff together makes the experience.

''Watching TV/ a movie is anti-social anyway, is it not? ''

not really no, i dind it is something friends can share in together.

If you're both watching the film then you might as well be watching it on your own anyway. What difference does him texting someone make to you watching the film?

At home it doesn’t bother me. At the cinema it cracks me up! So disruptive for all the other customers! I was in the cinema last week and a woman started taking photos of the screen with her sodding flash on as soon as the film started. I leaned over and asked her to stop and she told she would do as she liked. she didn’t do it again after that though.

Sometimes watching stuff together makes the experience.

How?

Sometimes watching stuff together makes the experience.

What a pile of wank 😂

Did she choose the film?

I had someone next to me at the Royal Opera House fiddling around on her phone instead of watching the ballet. The light was really distracting plus I was in the cheap seats right at the top with just a handrail in front of them, and I kept thinking she was going to drop the phone down into some poor person in the stalls way below us!

''However, I think we might now both be considered 'old fashioned' in feeling this way.''

Agreed, to me it is just manners and I'm suprised so many people on here are challenging my stance on what I'd call common courtesy.

Have you really not enjoyed watching a good film with someone else? Feeling the tension together, cheering at the good bits!?

Do you generally get over invested in light entertainment?

I agree OP. It’s like both agreeing to go roller skating and then one person sitting in the adjoining cafe instead. Technically they’re “there” but...

No, you’re not BU. It’s horribly rude.

It only bothers me in the cinema, and would only bother me at home if the person on their phone kept asking what was happening or who someone was.

I have a friend who is a bit like this. She's lovely but she's constantly on her phone when we're together and it's so irritating. We stayed at a hotel together once and she was on Facebook during breakfast which really pissed me off. I might as well have gone down for breakfast by myself!

I wouldn’t care, and certainly wouldn’t notice someone at the cinema on their phone! I’m constantly on my phone too though, so I guess the ‘light emitting from the screen’ doesn’t faze me.

I'm usually on my phone looking at spoilers

So many people spend far too much time staring at their phones in social settings. Eyes glued to the phone makes the person they're with feel that they're not important or interesting enough to hold someone's attention.

If you're watching something with someone (as opposed to just happening to be in the same room while the TV's on), you should at least try to pay attention. Agreeing to watch something and then spending the whole time on the phone is rude, and I don't care if that makes me sound like an old fart at 40!