Vibrate please

Phone etiquette... why is it that someone does not make some rules about this.  I was in a nice restaurant enjoying a great dinner with friends when this high pitched, ear piercing, ring tone from a phone kept beeping.  One time ok...maybe they forgot to turn it down but multiple times... not ok!! I got up from the table, walked over and politely asked her to silence her phone.  P.S. if you are in a nice restaurant, or anywhere for that matter, you should not have your phone out anyway... you should be enjoying the people that you are with or what you are out doing.  If you do need your phone then please put it on vibrate :) you can still know who is calling, texting or emailing but others do not have to hear it.  I do not know what happened in the last 10 years that now everyone thinks the world might end if they do not have their phone with them, out on the table and on the loudest possible ring.  Your friends will not unfriend you on facebook... promise.  There are always emergency situations and exceptions... but please turn your phone to vibrate or silence when you are out in public :) keep your ring tones for your personal enjoyment. 
On a side note... I had no idea that children are using text so much that they are not speaking or socializing anymore.  This may seem funny at first because they sit around and type, but it is really sad.  There is a fear that they will not learn proper social skills and so on.  They will not be the ones with the ringer on but they will not be making eye contact, communicating verbally or sharing active moments.  An acquaintance of ours was saying the other day, that he asked his daughter why she was not using any minutes? He had bought her an iphone and her bill was $0.00.  She replied she uses her phone all of the time... but not to talk.  He looked through the bill and saw 15,000 texts!! That is insane.

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