Its not just texting, its phone abuse too. I have schlepped through airports and rode planes to meet a coworker face to face only to have them spend most of the 'meeting' with them talking on the phone. I got up went into their managers office and explained the situation. After the manager pulled them out of the conference room it was amazing the rapt attention offered when they returned.

Its a discourteous attitude that I don't tolerate anymore. Besides life is very short, one should take advantage of the face to face opportunities as some come all too rarely.

We have something like that in-world, too. I'll post soon about 3D application panels in-world vs 2D panels floating above an individual user's view of the virtual world. When you're working with other folks on something, the 3D shared stuff seems more social. When folks come to a meeting and use 2D apps in other windows — whether shared 2D apps from the world or something else entirely on their computer — it does seem a bit disconnect and sometimes a bit discourteous.