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Have you noticed how people spend so much time looking at their phones they are often not looking where they are going when they are walking down the street? This is not something I have succumbed to, I check it about once an hour, and I am altered every time I get a text anyway so there is no need to spend all my time having my eyes glued to it.

Last night I was out and there were two women near me and my pal at the bar in the pub. One of them looked at her phone about every 10-15 seconds, it wasnt even as rarely as every half a minute, for the whole time she was there. I can not understand this: it seems that people regard a possible communication from someone on their phone as being more important than the actual real-life communication they are having with the person next to them, who they have gone out with for the evening.

These two hardly looked at each other at all, it was eyes-down staring at the phones the whole time. Why do people bother meeting up with others if all they are interested in is the possibility of someone texting them from afar? That seems to be more important than what the person next to them might be saying or doing. I don't think it was ever intended that mobile's would become THIS central in people's lives. I wonder if anyone has had counselling for mobile phone addiction (genuinely).

I try to keep my ears away from the mobile as much as I can with blue tooth headphones etc.

I bet if she was a model you wouldnt be able to ever get her on it though except through twitter and facebook that is. That seems to be the models communication of choice these days

While mobile phones certainly do have their uses, in my opinion they are the most anti-social things ever invented. They are a conversation killer.

I was in a restaurant the other day, and sitting next to me were two young women (early 20s).

One of the girls spent almost the whole time on her phone talking, ignoring the other girl.

If I was the other girl I would have got up and walked out.

I'm afraid the mobile is now part of life.
I don't use mine very often but I won't go a few hundred yards unless it's in my pocket. Just like I feel naked without my watch, something else I don't understand

While they can be handy,like if you break down or are stuck on a train and your late I agree they have taken over.

My mobile for example,I hardly use it for making calls,
Its use as a mp3 player mainly when Im on the train,I use the radio on it a lot and its also handy to use the camera on it when going to a gig.
Hardly gets used for what its really meant for.... a phone !!

Apparently you will soon be able to use your mobile when in a Tube train underground, so look forward to constant inane chats around you where people phone their friend to say "I'm sitting on a train", "it is 3 stops till my stop" and "the seats in this train are blue". Also look forward to people not having chats to their buddie who they got on the train with, instead just watch as they sit there constantly wondering if they have received any texts in the last 10 seconds, then looking again and again...

Let me guess. You had a date and the unlucky lass spent all night avoiding conversation with you and sat texting? !laugh!

Just got myself a spiffing HTC Nexus One. It's the phone that iPhone users close their eyes and think about when fiddling with their contraptions. Ha-ha-ha... Texting, calling, e-mailing, twittering, facebooking, shooting, listening to music, and browsing the web. They're not 'phones' anymore. More like mini-computers, or all-round social devices.

I don't see why two young girls ignoring eachother while texting is such a problem. I see plenty of middle-aged blokes sat in pubs staring into their pints, not talking and no one bats an eyelid. I see friends sat on the tram reading the Metro, ignoring eachother....

It's just something the younger generations do.

Its more than generational as i have a few friends in their 40/50s who dont seem to be capable of going anywhere without wanting to be 'oncall'

I on the otherhand refuse to become a slave to any phone and stick the messagebank on and turn the phone off