My wife and I were at Red Lobster last week.. There were two young females at a table beside us. They did not talk ... they just texted the whole time we were there. The food, when it arrived, barely distracted them... a fork in one hand and the other hand just kept texting.
At least we had a quiet dinner without a lot of yackey yack and giggling to interupt.. so sometimes it is a good thing...