{"id":451467,"date":"2026-05-16T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451467\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:46:09","slug":"adrian-weckler-a-quick-refresher-on-how-to-behave-in-public-with-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451467\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: A quick refresher on how to behave in public with your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ringtones, speaker phone, video-calls in public, leaving it on the table while talking to someone, carrying it in your hand at all times. The no-no list goes on&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Please don't whip out your phone in the cinema or theatre. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ttyImages_163296573.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Please don&#8217;t whip out your phone in the cinema or theatre. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At an intimate classical music concert last Sunday, a young man came in late, sat in the front row and checked his phone periodically for the rest of the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The phone display wasn\u2019t bright, he didn\u2019t type and there were no dinging or clicking sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ringtones, speaker phone, video-calls in public, leaving it on the table while talking to someone, carrying it in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8819,61,60,279,80],"class_list":["post-451467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}