I hate people who text in movies and shows. Sometimes when I'm performing, I see people's faces lighting up in the audience because they are texting. It's so disrespectful, not only to me because I am a person performing for them and can see them, but also to EVERYONE else in the audience who is distracted by that little glowing square. It takes everyone else out of the world created by the movie/show, which messes up that experience that they paid for. Stabbity.

Have you ever been tempted to stop dancing and tell them all they have one minute to put those damn things away before I walk off stage and you wasted your money? Its obnoxious enough at a movie, but at a live performance, where the person you came to see has a clear view that you find twitter so much more enthralling than her hard work and effort...I really do not understand how people can be both so inconsiderate and so oblivious as to what they are doing.

I really think there should be laws now about cell phone use in publicEven where there are though, they are very rarely enforced. The only place I've seen it myself was on Amtrak's quiet car, where they really mean no cell phones and will bitch you out if they catch you on one (since they warn you about it at literally every stop and there are signs about it everywhere, yet every trip people try it anyway). Everywhere else, there might be signs but no one cares. In the movie theaters (and oh gods, I've seen people that brag about how they twitter there opinions of a movie while they're watching it, like this is okay - no, its fucking not!) that would be easy to enforce if they wanted to, the phone lights up your fucking face very easy for an usher to find you and make you leave. In the library in Wayland that I used to go to every week for online access, there was a sign at eye level right on the front door about no cell phone use, but people get and receive calls all the time and no one makes a peep ( ... )