Stick Your Mobile Phone Up Your......... (General Comments...)

Name: Jon V

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Product:	General Comments...
Date:	10/01/02 (39 review reads)
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Advantages: Communication

Disadvantages: Annoying to others, Wouldn't it be easier to call instead?

Text messaging. The first technology-fuelled irritant of the 21st Century.

It is irritating enough to have to endure the high-pitched bleeps of other people's phones, but this new technological revalation is ruining nights out in bars, pubs and clubs accross the country.

Where once people would talk and be sociable and even get to know complete strangers, they sit in corners texting.

My local pubs in Newcastle are full of such people and I'm sure I can't be alone in feeling contempt towards this. I have a mobile phone purely because it is cheaper and more convenient than a landline, but using it so that it irritates and inconveniences others is very inconsiderate.

I think Dom Jolly summed up the current mentality with his Big mobile phone sketch on Trigger Happy TV. All he needs now are a bunch of people sitting in a pub which is hushed, as all it's customers sit there and fiddle ceaselessly with their little friends.

Do me a favour. Try not to text when you are out and have consideration for other people.

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