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My experience with my son is because he has a very busy job, he does answering of e-mail at times. but not excessively. He always apologizes for the intrusion. He knows I feel as you do and respects the time, we spend together.

I'm afraid my grand-daughter will not follow in his footsteps and I may have to read the riot act, when she is in my presence. She can be with her friends at all other times and I agree, it is disrespectful to others. Just like when I visited my brother and after a few minutes of conversation, he started to watch television. I felt I could have stayed home, if he wanted to watch television. Really rude!!!!

When my son was very small, he asked me if he could play with my nephew in his basement that was kept very cool. I told him he could if he left his sneakers on, as he had a cold. I noticed after he had left, his sneakers were taken off. He came up from the basement and asked me if he could go outside outside and play. I ignored him and he started crying. I then stopped my conversation and said, "If you don't listen to me then why should I listen to you". He never pulled that stunt again.

I feel the same way if I were in the presence of someone texting, all the time.
I would tell them to either play attention to the people in the room or go somewhere, where their presence is not needed. It's rude and disrespectful.

I find it amazing that some people think that whatever they say or do, is so fascinating, to the world, at large. Communication skills have taken a severe hit and social skills are on the decline.

Taking to other people keeps up connected in a meaningful way. It is healthy and necessary. IMHO