Cell phones: friend or foe?

[DrummerDeanna]

Okay...this is a bit of rant thread...but it's really not meant to offend any of you cell phone enthusiasts out there...

First off I do own a cell phone, I got it when I knew I would be driving to Phoenix by myself to see FM last summer...and it really did come in handy....and now I keep it around..but it's either off or on silent most of the time...

Now recently it's like people have forgotten all common etiquette and cell phones are like life's one thread or something. Examples: in at least three of my classes people do nothing but sit and text message through the whole class, it's very distracting and rude and why even show up to class if that's all you're going to do?? Next in two of my classes people are out right answering their phones during class and initiating calls!!! This is really beginning to piss me off!! Also haha..I told you this was a rant thread....I just came back from the gym...I like to just zone out/work out hard etc...well today every bike or other machine I got on the person next to me - their cell phone would ring and they'd just gab away...while half-assedly pedaling on the bike or doing the eliptical....ggrrrr...it was totally annoying!!!

So...do I just need to lighten up? Or is anyone else totally bugged by the "rudening" of society thanks to cell phones?