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agreed.

if it's rude to sit there and do a crossword puzzle, it's rude to use your phone in any manner.

i mean, 50 minutes. seriously? you likely have an away message up telling people that you are in class.

and you're not that cool anyway. keep quiet or don't even come to class.

I know what you mean. I go to university and class is often disrupted by cell-phone notifications. The teachers usually just keep talking and ignore it or they remind students that cellular phones should be turned off out of respect. The students that sit and text or go out of class to talk are usually the same students who go on Facebook during class and end up getting bad grades. However, the frequency of these notifications that effect most schools and workplaces will cause a social backlash according to a blog I recently read where people will treat these outbursts as "digital flatulence". (http://www.touchmarketingblog.com/). Take a look, you may find this interesting.