I agree Guest Jon, we've lost many old 'good manners' customs here in UK. Before I retired as a teacher, I used to explain to my pupils that, in the early fifties, my family (and most other families) had NO TV, NO phone, No CDs, NO computers, NO mobiles, NO car, NO heating except one coal fire lit in the evening. They were always absolutely horrified and couldn't imagine such a life. We DID have a radio (with valves, you warmed it up a bit before you could listen). But strangely enough, we were very happy. And everybody talked to other people face to face and listened attentively. Manners were paramount. A visitor would never ever be ignored, as in the texting described by Bobert. If my sister and I had behaved like that to a visiting uncle or aunt, my father would later have given us both a jolly good slap.