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Originally Posted by Plan9
That's fine as long as you realize an inanimate object is only as evil as the human operating it.
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I'm with you, Plan9, and the others with similar opinions. Cell phone technology may have changed the method of reaching someone, but it hasn't changed the basic ways we interact. If someone takes a call in the middle of a conversation and talks for 10 minutes it makes me angry, but it's the same as if a person walked up and hijacked the conversation while I'm still standing there. On the other hand if we're talking and someone takes a call, and it's just a "Oh, FYI, the meeting's been moved to 3." then it's no big deal.
If you're in a large group meeting or a movie theater, you shouldn't start talking to your buddy about the game last night either. Talking on the phone is the same thing. Obviously your ringer should be silenced though, just like you shouldn't randomly yell or make distracting noises.
I think if you imagine someone walking up to talk instead of the phone ringing, you'd see a lot of frustration with cell phones (besides inattentive driving, etc) isn't because of some new social rule on the evils of technology and instant availibility, but things that are rude in person too.