Normal to feel irritated by people distracted on mobile phones; tldr bottom
I get a very particular feeling from of people who are focusing on their mobile phones, and I'm wondering if others get the same.
Everyone has a bit of a "presence". For example, if you are together with someone in a pitch black room, you'd still feel and know that the other person is there. When I'm with someone, and they take out their mobile phone, for me it's like their presence disappears. Where I previously felt their presence, I now feel a void. It's like they are no longer "really" there, their whole presence is consumed by the mobile phone.
This void feeling, in turn, is then irritating to me, sometime very irritating. The reason for this irritating feeling is more intuitive than logical, and hard to put into words. It's like they - i.e. the people on phones - are not really living, in that moment. They are wasting their time with something that is not real. They are in some world that does not really exist objectively. And I find it rude that they just "go" like that. Even if I'm not necessarily in a conversation with that person. I feel like that with people in public transport too, even though there it does not bother me that much, but I still subtly feel disapproval.
If someone is using their mobile phone in a productive setting, like work, or for practical reasons, or alone, I don't feel like that. It's only if it's for "entertainment" (including social media).
TL;DR: I feel irritated by when people zone into their phones around me, even if I'm not in a conversation with them. It's not because I feel they are being rude to me, but there is something irritating about the act itself.
Do others experience the same?