SQ3: No texting at the movies?
Have you noticed lately the newly revised sermon that comes on prior to the movie previews at movie theaters on silencing your mobile device? Actually, I’m not too sure about this, but for a long while AT&T was delivering that message with Regal Cinemas. Now it’s Sprint, but furthermore I think it was Sprint that added the second commandment of “No texting.”
Upon seeing that message in a rather large italicized font on the big screen, I couldn’t help but feel annoyed and put off. If I recall correctly, among the first television commercials on text messaging they advertised how convenient it can be to send a silent, non-disruptive text message in the event that someone needs to reach you or vice versa (i.e. in the middle of a concert, play, movie, uncomfortable date for which you need to inconspicuously devise an exit strategy, etc.). In fact, I think that was it’s original premise from the start; quiet, silent, and private, or at least that’s my reasoning for text messaging. Although, there are some iPhone owners that just get a huge ego boost by letting people hear the clickety-click of the touch QWERTY pad, as if to be announcing, “Look at me I’m an iPhone owner.” *ridiculous* At least that’s what I think of the “tools” that refuse to silence their iPhone at the worst of times.
Anyway, this week’s social question is…
Are you bothered by people texting while watching a theater movie?
Personally, I’m not so long as the person turns down the brightness of the mobile device’s screen. That aside, I’m cool with it.
But, how about you?
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-David 
