What's your stance on using mobile phones while having a meal with family/friends? Do you think it's rude when someone starts typing away at their phone, or when they receive a phone call and decide to answer it?

Does it depend on who you're with? Is it okay to concentrate on your phone when you're with friends, but not okay when you're with older family members?

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well, i sometimes do take my fone while i have dinner, either with friends or family....
n I may answer/not answer depending on whom would sms/call me...
i may turn it 2 silent n just text n say am having my meal, call u later....

usually i dont pick up calls, but i may return an sms ...

I don't see anything wrong with it as long as you're not overdoing it. I persnoally answer phonecalls normally text normally.

when im with family i dnt like taking my fne with me in dinner time....but with friends n cousins its ok to me...

When am with family, it's alright and with friends, I try not to have long conversations on the phone if so, I ask whoever has called to call them back later. Though, I reply any msgs. I receive. I don't quite answer much while am with people I've just met, only if it's necessary to take the call. My phone most of the time is on silent so, they don't even know if am receiving any calls lol.

truth is, yeah its offenisive. imagine u out on a date and your lover starts texting and msging. I d be pissed. I m not down with it

well, ONLY if its important or i'm waiting for a call or a reply i might take it with me..

but answering any call or spend the meal smsing..i find that rude and so overdoing it!
no one is going anywhere..hopefully :rolleyes:

I have no problem with that.

smsing is a complete no!no!
picking up a call..you say "excuse me " to everyone on the table..then you pick up the call....and tell the person " i'll ring you back..im at dinner"

a phone @ the dinner table is a definite no-no whoever im with. texting is out of the question, if sum1 calls & i have 2 pipck it up cuz it's ringing 2 loud thn i ask them 2 call back. however when im with friends it's more flexible i guess.

i dont think its rude and i dont know why some people think it is?! maybe its an emergency, who knows, i always keep my mobile on the table with me, and if i have to type a message or recieve a call i will, i dont care if people around me are annoyed, coz theres no reason to be actually :).

It's ok to answer your phone or text when you're with friends, but it's soo not ok to do that when you're with family! :p

I never take my phone with me to the dinner table at home, it's always left in my room. If I'm out having dinner though, then I would reply to text messages, and I'd only answer it if I thought it was something urgent, or just to inform the person I'm busy and will call them back.

hmm at home it's usually in my room.. if it is with me, it'd be on silent n i'd just text the person if it was urgent or something n call back later.
If i'm out with friends i'd answer it, or text back or whatever.. not too big an issue. Unless we're at a fancy restaurant n the foods already here :p

I never really noticed how incredibly rude it is to be on your phone while out at a dinner table until I came here. Arabs seem to be terrible when it comes to cell phone manners, where as everyone else not only will not bring it to the table but will not answer while having a conversation out of respect to you. I find that admirable and have adapted those manners as well recently. Being on your phone constantly while out with others is really quite rude if you think about it, what is the point of being with them when your focus is on your phone? Or cutting them off every ten minutes to take a call that is not needed to take? People on the other end of the phone should respect that as well, if they know you are out with people: don't call!

i think it's sooo very rude to play with ur phone when u're having a meal with the family or when u're visiting somebody
i always keep my phones away when i'm having food even if it was ringing i don't answer it till i'm done
and if i was visiting somebody i just keep it inside my bag unless an important phone call came then i'll pick up and i'll try my best to make it short :)

what can i say other than 'family time, is family time!' i always keep my phone upstairs when i hv dinner =S

I never take my phone with me to the dinner table at home, it's always left in my room. If I'm out having dinner though, then I would reply to text messages, and I'd only answer it if I thought it was something urgent, or just to inform the person I'm busy and will call them back.
Same case here exactly.

i think itz abit rude especially the smsin' unless ur with close friends then itz ok

It's rude. If you receive a call while you were chatting with someone, then you should finish the conversation then answer the phone. How will you feel if you were chatting with a friend, then a third passes by and they started chatting, ignoring you?

if i was talking to somebody on the table! i wont pick up the phone
just till i finish... i can call the person again..

if i was with close close friends i just can answer after saying"one min plz"
and answer the call and try end it up as soon as i can or tell the other person
who called that i will call him/her back.. thats it

ps: if it was dad who is calling i should answer no matter what!

It depends on the people I am with really, if im just out with friends its ok. But if im with my family or someone who would not like to be bothered during a meal, I keep it on silent and tuck it away.

I think either case is rude. If it's really important, and it may be, a person should excuse him/herself from the table if it's something that has to be dealt with immediately.

Close friends: Its ok
Family: Not really
Guests: Definitely Not

What's your stance on using mobile phones while having a meal with family/friends? Do you think it's rude when someone starts typing away at their phone, or when they receive a phone call and decide to answer it?
i think its rude.. i think its something got to do with my up bringing as i have been taught to never ever speak or txt infront of older family members, so then i took it along with friends also, but ofcourse with friends its abit less rude, if we were only me and him, then its rude to stay for long in a phone call or keep on txting alot, but with more guys around its ok to take abit longer :)

Does it depend on who you're with? Is it okay to concentrate on your phone when you're with friends, but not okay when you're with older family members?
yah it does depend, its okay to concentrate on ur phone while with friends, but strictly not okay while with parents and 1st class uncles and parents :p

When I'm with my friends then it's ok! But if I'm with my family elders then I won't even think of answering the phone as long as it's not an importnat phone call!