Can you put your finger on exactly why it's so annoying when people you're with carry on endless text conversations with someone else?

Can you put your finger on exactly why it's so annoying when people you're with carry on endless text conversations with someone else?
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It’s like addressing a group of people or putting on a presentation in a conference room and two or three of the folks at the table are leaning over and whispering over you. Makes you want to pull out a bullwhip and crack it at’em like Indiana Jones. Whew!
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