I’m driven to distraction by people who treat cellphoning as compatible with other activities; especially if those involve me(most especially if they involve demanding my attention while only providing a fraction of theirs).
I definitely hit the computer harder than is advisable; but it’s a discrete thing. When I’m on it, that’s what I’m doing; when I’m not it’s asleep or locked(depending on whether it is busy with network traffic or background processing). Only exception is the computer that usurped the CD player’s place in the stereo system years ago; which is technically a computer used for background.
Cellphones, by virtue of being small and sometimes doing things you have to respond to seem to be much more adept at boundary transgression and generally sneaking out when people are supposedly doing something else.
