Should restaurants ban the use of mobiles

I remember when juke boxes and space invaders etc were first put in pubs and guess what the olds shook their heads.  Nothing stay the same so we just have to get on with it

I remember when juke boxes and space invaders etc were first put in pubs and guess what the olds shook their heads.  Nothing stay the same so we just have to get on with it

They now play space invaders on their phones

Using facebook when in a resturant is considered anti social.......

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Really? Who decided that?

My immediate reaction was - why just Facebook??

Bugs

I don't care one way or the other as long as the person with the phone doesn't start thinking that everyone should hear their conversation. If they sit there texting or speaking quietly then I have no problem. I just think it's a sad sight to see a couple sitting in a pub or restaurant ignoring their dining companion as well as being b****y rude. Personally I'd get up and walk out on them but I wouldn't ban phones,  just ask people to be respectful of other diners

It's the modern thing, why should anyone complain as long as they are not in your company why bother about what other people do. Someone as already mentioned juke boxes who complained when they were loud, you just went with the flow. If you object to someone speaking on the phone as someone else as said a quiet word will probably stop them. For goodness sake live and let live.

Pewrhaps restaurants should have a foil lining in the ceiling and walls. That should disrupt the signal. 

I confess I have always been very intolerant of people using mobile phones in restaurants and in theatres and cinemas (which someone mentioned above as if it were the same thing) it is absolutely unforgiveable. I don't think you can ban them in restaurants but I certainly think it is the height of rudeness to use them - particularly to make calls. 

Probably the most awful incident I saw once was when I was eating one night alone on a business trip and a guy on the next table conducted a conversation on his mobile phone whilst eating his main course. Imagine listening to that on the other end. UGH!!

Just one other thing - thinking about Molly's comment. I don't really see how you can object to someone using a mobile on your table but condone someone doing it on another table. I agree your not exactly going to interfere with people on other tables but I don't see how one can be acceptable but another is not.     

Bothmy wife and I switch our mobiles off when in a restaurant, cinema cafe or in fact anywhere it may annoy anybody. Only because my wife forgot to switch hers off and got a call half way through a funeral, what made it worse was she had  Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones for a ring tone.

So if someone is talking loudly at the next table your going to object to that as well. I myself am a little deaf and naturally speak loud, is that wrong or not, do you know if that person on the next table is deaf, do you know whether it's an emergency or not, as I said earlier live and let live, those people at the next table may have objections to what you are doing. As for trains if you find that someone is doing something objectionable including using a mobile phone you can complain to the staff and they should do something about it because there are bye laws on the railway and disturbing someone is against those bye laws. One other thing with this, are you going down the big brother line and backing a nanny state?

Mobile phones certainaly are helping the young become very rude bad mannered and very ignorant, they are completely oblivious to any body or anything around them, I personally think they should be shut off or placed on silent in most public spaces i e restaurants ect and deffinatly not allowed to be used at shop checkouts just like petrol fourcourts