Mobile phone use in public places

The operating word here is MOBILE! You don't buy a mobile phone to sit in the kitchen and use it.

I am really starting to detest mobile phones! I use mine for texting and thats it. if im on a bus, I say im on a bus to the caller and tell them to phone me back mainly because I dont want a bunch of strangers listening to my conversation. I hate it when someone sat behind you is on the phone cause they are practically talking down your eardrum.

but whats really peeing me off is going out with a certain friend for lunch, and trying to chat while she is either checking her email, you're a student love and work in a call centre- I dont think anything in your inbox needs your urgent attention, or texting someone, why couldn't it wait?, and then is usually on the phone to her boyfriend at some point and I have to be subjected to their sniping or disagreements with my friend rolling her eyes - hang up then!

People aren't just going to ignore their phone ringing for no other reason than they are outside thier own home. Whats the point in that?! So what you have to listen to a conversation! So what choose to ignore it, if you hate it that bad then im sure you cando that. Im sure you all answer your phones for other people to hear your conversations so I dont get what your problem is.

Can we have a ban on people using mobile phones on public transport . Or have some respect for other people when your telling your best mate what you did the night before ! I don't want to hear all your gossip.

Cellphones are realy annoying -but- Loud music in public places are just not acceptable.
if you have to, use headphones. I think someone should write something about loud musics.

this is a very inspirarional website it makes me want to get out and help the community it also makes me sad that people have to sit through other peoples phone conversation what if they are talking about something gross like kissing, or if they are using bad language it could really make a bad influence on someones life. Thank you for understaning
Thank you verry much.
Thanks Carline.

there is no plomblem using a mobile phone if you need to but of it is for fun then don`t

You people.. there is nothing wrong with useing you phone in public.. If you don't want to hear it then don't listen to it. I can ignore a phone convo.... really easy.. so if I want to talk on my phone in front of a lot of people then I am going to do it..

oh I hate it when people shout down the phone and the whole street and hear it.

Well you shouldn't really be listening in to that person's conversation, that's WEIRD. What are they supposed to do, wait 'till they get HOME to use their MOBILE phone?

I am writing a debate on what people think and I just want to say they are not always a nuiscance. They can be very useful.

Have just returned from trying to have a quiet drink and meal in a pub because the person I was with has had a particularly distressing day and needed to relax and recover. This particular pub does not have juke box or loud music and has a rule about the use of mobiles and frequently ask people to go outside if they want to use their mobile for any long period of time. For these reasons I choose this pub to go to.

Most people would respect this but on this occassion a 30+ year old woman was on the phone at the next table for over 30 minutes talking in a very loud voice. Naturally for the reasons stated earlier the person I was with found this extremely annoying and I asked her if she could go outside to finish her conversation. This was met by a load of abusive language. The manager eventually had to be called who asked her to leave and on the way out again we all had to to put up with her further abuse. It was a good job she was a woman as if not she would have left with the phone stuck up her ????

She was incidently Australian and as a previous incident on a bus involved an Australian leaves me to wonder if they are the rudest people in the world or is this predjudice.