In which of these situations is it appropriate to use your phone?

[Lief 🗽]

Inspired by this Pew poll



http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/4/

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

It doesn't particularly seem like a political question, but I'll bite.

Depends on context.

[politicallefty]

Every member of my family is guilty of option 1. Option 2 is a possibility, but only if there's no ongoing lecture and you've finished your work. I do think it's rude to use your phone when someone's talking to you, which would obviously include a class lecture. I only voted for option 1, though I usually try to use whatever I am doing on my phone to facilitate conversation during a family dinner.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

None of them (Millennial)

[NewYorkExpress]

None of them (Millennial)

Odd, I thought someone under 50 say all of them.

[IceSpear]

None of them (Millennial)

This.

However, that doesn't mean I don't occasionally do it during these situations.

[ElectionsGuy]

Depends on context.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

It would be uncouth at a business meeting but perfectly acceptable in the other situations. Who doesn't check their phone at lecture halls or church anyways?

[Simfan34]

Do you even go to church bro? Seriously, though, the 12% saying yes... are likely not in church.

The family dinner bit is terrifying, as is the poll overall. Never has it happened when the four of us are sitting at the table eating. I would probably be smacked with a spoon even today if I was to try, and with just cause. Completely out of the question. During a lecture, it is a given that you will (provided the professor hasn't explicitly or implicitly prohibited it), but in a smaller class, it's not something you want to do. You can go an hour without looking at your phone (but no-one texts me, anyway...) but if you really have to you can run off "to the bathroom" and check it there.

In a business meeting, no, unless it's some long board meeting, I don't know. I'd attribute the millennial score to having not been in many business meetings, either having not worked or working in some hipster wishy-washy open plan office where a formal meeting might imply a one-on-one thing (i.e., getting fired).

As for church... no.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Only at dinner, and only to tell the person trying to contact you that your eating dinner.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I mean, if you're in a business meeting and you gotta tell your bud some insider info so as to manipulate the market for your gain, I guess it's okay then.

[Napoleon]

Whenever one pleases.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Do you even go to church bro? Seriously, though, the 12% saying yes... are likely not in church.

The family dinner bit is terrifying, as is the poll overall. Never has it happened when the four of us are sitting at the table eating. I would probably be smacked with a spoon even today if I was to try, and with just cause. Completely out of the question. During a lecture, it is a given that you will (provided the professor hasn't explicitly or implicitly prohibited it), but in a smaller class, it's not something you want to do. You can go an hour without looking at your phone (but no-one texts me, anyway...) but if you really have to you can run off "to the bathroom" and check it there.

In a business meeting, no, unless it's some long board meeting, I don't know. I'd attribute the millennial score to having not been in many business meetings, either having not worked or working in some hipster wishy-washy open plan office where a formal meeting might imply a one-on-one thing (i.e., getting fired).

As for church... no.

I go to church and check my phone during it all the time. I voted for that and dinner (depends on circumstances there)

[Simfan34]

Do you even go to church bro? Seriously, though, the 12% saying yes... are likely not in church.

The family dinner bit is terrifying, as is the poll overall. Never has it happened when the four of us are sitting at the table eating. I would probably be smacked with a spoon even today if I was to try, and with just cause. Completely out of the question. During a lecture, it is a given that you will (provided the professor hasn't explicitly or implicitly prohibited it), but in a smaller class, it's not something you want to do. You can go an hour without looking at your phone (but no-one texts me, anyway...) but if you really have to you can run off "to the bathroom" and check it there.

In a business meeting, no, unless it's some long board meeting, I don't know. I'd attribute the millennial score to having not been in many business meetings, either having not worked or working in some hipster wishy-washy open plan office where a formal meeting might imply a one-on-one thing (i.e., getting fired).

As for church... no.

I go to church and check my phone during it all the time. I voted for that and dinner (depends on circumstances there)

But see, you don't actually go to a church- you go to a rather dull hand-waving party without (or should I say miserly amounts of) alcohol in the daytime in a rather pathetic pastiche of the already horrendous "Sunday Funday". Texting would be perfectly acceptable in such a scenario.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Obviously none (normal, even for a large majority of millennials, as the actual Pew poll shows).

An exception would be if the conversation involving others were at a point where looking something up were appropriate.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Has no one else ever gone to a church service when whoever was giving the sermon asked the congregation to text them questions or tweet reactions with a special hashtag?

[Simfan34]

Has no one else ever gone to a church service when whoever was giving the sermon asked the congregation to text them questions or tweet reactions with a special hashtag?

Like I said, you are not actually going to a "church service" nor is it an actual "congregation". You are going to one of your shows with Christian music and you are in the audience. Moshing allowed at your own risk, I assume?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

None (normal).

Has no one else ever gone to a church service when whoever was giving the sermon asked the congregation to text them questions or tweet reactions with a special hashtag?

#questingbeast, perhaps, would be appropriate in that situation.

[Randy Bobandy]

I use my phone during 1, 2, and 4 (I have no job, so obviously no business meetings).

/rude teenager

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Has no one else ever gone to a church service when whoever was giving the sermon asked the congregation to text them questions or tweet reactions with a special hashtag?

Like I said, you are not actually going to a "church service" nor is it an actual "congregation". You are going to one of your shows with Christian music and you are in the audience. Moshing allowed at your own risk, I assume?

Um, no. For one the shows I go to don't have chairs (which make moshing quite difficult and thus it doesn't occur.) Nor do the have someone speaking for 40-50 minutes with a bunch of stuff displayed on a TV screen in the back. Or communion.

[AkSaber]

I say none but that's just me.

[Simfan34]

Has no one else ever gone to a church service when whoever was giving the sermon asked the congregation to text them questions or tweet reactions with a special hashtag?

Like I said, you are not actually going to a "church service" nor is it an actual "congregation". You are going to one of your shows with Christian music and you are in the audience. Moshing allowed at your own risk, I assume?

Um, no. For one the shows I go to don't have chairs (which make moshing quite difficult and thus it doesn't occur.) Nor do the have someone speaking for 40-50 minutes with a bunch of stuff displayed on a TV screen in the back. Or communion.

You guys have communion?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Has no one else ever gone to a church service when whoever was giving the sermon asked the congregation to text them questions or tweet reactions with a special hashtag?

#questingbeast, perhaps, would be appropriate in that situation.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Has no one else ever gone to a church service when whoever was giving the sermon asked the congregation to text them questions or tweet reactions with a special hashtag?

Like I said, you are not actually going to a "church service" nor is it an actual "congregation". You are going to one of your shows with Christian music and you are in the audience. Moshing allowed at your own risk, I assume?

Um, no. For one the shows I go to don't have chairs (which make moshing quite difficult and thus it doesn't occur.) Nor do the have someone speaking for 40-50 minutes with a bunch of stuff displayed on a TV screen in the back. Or communion.

You guys have communion?

Yes. Using saltines though.

[dead0man]

All 4, unless you're being a dick about it.  No, you shoudn't play angry birds or whatever game is hot this month while the boss is talking about cut backs, but checking an email for 15 seconds during church or a meal with the family?  I don't see the problem.

[nolesfan2011]

It depends on the number of people present and whether someone is addressing you directly in every case.

this, I voted for all 3 but family dinner