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> Would you be just as uncomfortable eating lunch with someone who had their phone in their hand?

the entire time?

of course - and I'd question my decision to invite them

unless they're sharing their screen with everyone (showing pics, etc) or taking a group pic, having their phone out and pointed at you for more than a few moments would be both uncomfortable and rude

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if you place a phone face-down and have the macro lens recording, you could pretty easily see both people at a table.

What? No you can’t at all. Unless you got some mythical alien phone which doesn’t exist.

I am not aware of a commonly used phone with a 180 degree FOV macro lens, but regardless of how a phone on the table makes me feel, someone holding a phone up, pointing at me for all of lunch, would be rude and discomforting.

They could be pointing it mostly at the table (<45° angle) and you'd still be in frame without realizing.

I don't see how I could fail to notice that my fellow diner was rudely and discomfortingly holding or using their phone for the entire meal, or that they carefully balanced one end of their phone on top of stuff on the table at a 45 degree angle pointing towards me for no apparent reason

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