Blankety blank mobile phones!

2 of my daughters seem to be surgically attached to their mobiles. However, they seem to use them as diaries for the children and for their increasingly hectic social lives. The school puts up endless info by text and on line, all of which seems to be very important (?). Even on the beach DD2 refers to the wretched thing every 10 minutes or so. Everyone knows what everyone else is doing, before it even happens apparently. I feel quite worn out by the end of the day and wonder just how I managed to cope without one of these things when they were growing up. Of course they have their uses and , yes, I do have my own mobile, but I use it reservedly.
Adds (sheepishly) : can't imagine life without my iPad

I was recently enjoying a solitary lunch in a well known chain. At the table next to me were two women who could have been Mum and Daughter. Daughter was constantly on her phone to the extent her Mother had long finished her lunch while daughter was still less than half way through her soup. I did wonder what the point was of them being together. It made me less self conscious about eating on my own as to all in intents that Mum was on her own

I hate my mobile, only use it to take into town or wherever I`m going, doctors maybe, in order to phone for a taxi home. Otherwise, it`s just used when on holiday, to keep in touch with our daughter at home, and check that she`s OK.

Not for all of us, yogagran!

I keep my shopping lists on my phone too so will very often check it while I'm out and about.
Read my Kindle book while I'm waiting somewhere.
If I'm dog walking in a different place from usual then I will use my phone maps and GPS
The days of just using a phone for calls and texts has long gone

DS works in the main warehouse of a large supermarket and they recently had a Hungarian girl critically injured because she walked into the road talking on her mobile and was hit by one of the lorries.

It must cost as fortune yacking so often as some folk do! I use mine for emergencies only.

When DH and I go shopping together we always make sure we take our phones because we need them when we become separated from each other.

Sometimes we are only in Waitrose and somehow he has disappeared and in the end I phone and say 'where are you?' and he says, 'by the fish' or whatever. It saves no end of rows.

Often one of the grandchildren will text or phone and I'm always interested in what they have to say.

And then I get all my e-mails on my phone. The other day I was reading the GN Newsletter whilst sitting in a café drinking a latte.

Honestly, I'm not showing off and trying to look important.

I might be prattling though!

Yes, agreed - but they should still look where they're going when about to cross a road. I think I find the lack of eye-contact, or any evidence that they're aware of their surroundings that I find so unnerving as a driver.

I only carry my mobile with me in case of emergency, and would't dream of using it to check on websites etc. while walking around in town, or in a shop.

A lot of people are not making calls or texting they are on the internet on their phones, checking in on websites or forums, playing Candy Crush, have an app running, using their phone for GPS etc etc etc.. phone calls and texting are just a small part of what people do with their phones nowadays.

Talking to whom? Is there something I've missed about Gransnet?

I was just about to say you have explained exactly why it is then you said that bit about old ladies - they were clearly on Gransnet!!

IMO , I think a lot of people jump on the mobile to speak or text to show the world how important they are and how many friends they have .
All one Big Front !
I have to smile to myself when I see old women on the mobile , yaking away . nothing in their lives surely can be that important !
L A L

It's worrying to drive in towns these days. Pedestrians don't seem to be aware of traffic when they're engrossed either phoning or texting - they often start crossing the road without apparently looking...

Had a very interesting train journey once listening to a woman who seemed oblivious to the fact that she was in public....she phoned her husband and then a friend, in the course of which I learned that she was NOT going for the weekend where her husband thought.....

Very tantalising not to hear more!

Or constantly text about. Saw one lass do it for an entire one hour journey.

I often wonder what the hell they find to prattle about...