answer:NOT OKAY—When you’re in the seat ahead of me in a stadium movie theatre. I had someone like that in the last movie I saw and he did it for an hour before someone had the nerve to tell him to knock it off (yeah, I know, I need more courage). If it’s that important, stay home. I only use them in an emergency, anyway and never as conversation. I’d rather do that in person. (Again, AC, you can call me silly). And if I’m the friend you’re having lunch with, then you’d better not text unless it IS an emergency. Otherwise, why did you bother to go out to lunch with a friend? Same goes for talking on the phone. I was observing in a courtroom once and the bailiff announced made a warning before the judge came in that if he saw ANY phones out while he was in the courtroom, that they would be seized and donated to a battered women’s shelter.