It is “the distracting glow in a movie theatre…, the narcissistic multi-taskers holding up lineups [and the]…dinner companions obsessively checking messages” that is creating an epidemic of rudeness when referring to cell phones. The article "Public display of disaffection" by Anne Kingston and Alex Ballingall addresses the "cell-fish-ness" of using a cell phone in inappropriate public scenarios. The cell phone is referred to as "an addiction" and a distraction that many people are intolerant to and find disrespectful. The article illustrates how "we’re losing our one-on-one people skills". It is also stated that texting at a public event is viewed as unprofessional and “rude period”. “People are preoccupied [and] oblivious to “their anti-social behaviour” and the issue is only growing worse.
The idea of a cellphone is paradoxical, "it connects virtual communities and irritates the person standing next to you". The article “Public display of disaffection” by Anne Kingston and Alex Ballingall illustrates just how consequential cell phones can be. The authors of this article are indubitably correct. When graduates are "typing away on mobile devices themselves”, amid their own graduation, there is a predicament." People are so preoccupied they're oblivious” to how much of a nuisance their being and how they are risking their valued relationships. Cellphones promote and “invite antisocial behaviour" and numerous people are fed up with being ignored. It is time for our society to push the boundaries, "ensuring the ringers are off, it’s a start".