said by B04:My Subject line says it for me. The fact that people blithely and willingly pay such ridiculous markups for tiny chunks of WAV or MP3 files (usually for songs they already own) in super-secret Ringtone format for their free-with-2-year-commitment cell phones, and that they then pay dozens of extra dollars per month to text-chat with their friends instead of using the phone/Internet minutes they've already paid for... well let's just say it explains a lot of things.
-- B
You bring out one point in the overall problem--technology advances quicker than society can evolve to handle it. We have a huge problem of evolving rules to deal with things like cell phones in public, cameras on phones, etc. Too many times I have gone to a decent restaurant just to have someone at a nearby table talk on his or her cell phone at a volume like he/she was out in a construction site. Other times, people are so busy texting while walking (or driving) that they pay no attention to the people around them. Then, of course are those who talk on the phone while they are at the cashier and look at the cashier like they have three heads for disturbing their phone call.