Mobile Phones in Pubs - An Unwelcome Intrusion? #PhonesDown


A few weeks ago, I was in a pub with some friends and we were having some drinks. After a while I noticed that conversation had died down and I realised that the 5 of them were all on their phones while I had a pint in my hand. I rolled my eyes and picked up  my own phone after a few moments of hesitation. I felt like tweeting them all to put their bloody phones down.

From Guinness Press Release
Que last night, Guinness launched an initiative to encourage people to put their phones down or as they put it, switch to pub mode.


I thought it was ironic being at a media event where most of us are on social media but where using social media at the event would technically be against the ethos of the night. So, we put our phones on the provided phone bean bags and phone towers. Janice from the Irish Beer Snob blog & podcast took this photo of my phone (brown one) and Pauline's phone (black one) quickly and sent it on to me.

Whether you drink Guinness or any Diageo product is beside the point here. The idea here is that phones are interfering with our pub culture and after doing some research they found the following:

A study was conducted by Behaviour & Attitudes, led by Richard Layte, Head of Sociology at Trinity College. Some of the significant findings included:

  • 94%  of people enjoyed a night out as much or more without their phone in stark contrast to just 6% of people enjoying a night more with their phone in use.
  • People who put their phone down also felt more included in their group.
  • People felt closer to their friends as a result of putting their phones down.


Locked in conversation
Last night, Pauline and I along with Wayne and Janice (The Beer Snobs) sat around a table while our phones were resting in the provided phone tower or bean bags. We chatted all night and apart from Wayne quickly checking the score of the Ireland game (and regretting it) and Janice taking the above photo, we didn't touch our phones all evening.

Do you know what? We were by far the better for it. We all learned things about each other that we didn't know and we had a great time as well as some deep conversations. It was like a night out before the age of mobile phones. Good beer, cheesy toasties, cheesier jokes and great conversation. 

For instance, Wayne confirmed something I had only heard about anecdotally. In the UK, history classes in school don't have anything more than a footnote about Irish independence than it actually occurred. Wayne is Irish but went to school in the UK so he did his GCSE before returning home and did Leaving cert history. He was astounded by the amount if history that wasn't taught in the UK. Well, England anyway. I'm not sure if Scotland or Wales have a different curriculum or not. That's the kind of interesting conversation we might not have had if we were on our phones.

I had the idea last night of phone Jenga. Stack the phones like the first image above and then stick a pint on top. If you want to use your phone, you need to remove it without touching the pint or spilling it. That might be a terrible idea after a few pints though.... I just Googled it and phone Jenga is already a thing by the way but perhaps not with a pint on the top. Proceed with caution!

So what are your opinions of phones in pubs? Beyond a quick Tweet or Instagram of your pint of course, we're not savages! The world needs to know what beer we are drinking.....


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  1. History curricula in English schools contain very little about English history, let alone Irish.

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  2. I guess having nearly year old twin sons to keep an eye on helps when it comes to not using my phone in the pub, but also the fact that when I hang out with my friends it is one of the few adult interactions I get these days as I work from home, so keeping the phone in my pocket is pretty easy. By providing bean bags and towers though Guinness tacitly admitting that people have become such slaves to their screens that they are incapable of just keeping them in their pockets/handbags. Pubs themselves are part of the problem here as well by almost universally providing free wifi to get people through the door, why provide it if you don't want people to use their devices? Should wifi be considered an obstruction to proper pub culture in the same vein as canned music and multiple large screen TVs showing Sky Sports?

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  3. I did History to O Level (age 16); it more or less went "kings and queens, Industrial Revolution, World War I, World War II, the end". The island next door didn't get much of a look-in at any point, and certainly not what went on in 1916. You pick up a bit about the North from the news (unless you're Karen Bradley), but the Republic is a closed book for most people here. It's scary when you think about it. It hit me when I was reading a book about the prehistory of the Troubles, well into my twenties, and came across a reference to Ireland's main political parties having descended from the Civil War; I suddenly realised that I had not the faintest idea who was on which side in this civil war or even when it was. I've got up to speed since then, but there must be lots of people who never get that far.

    I'm not very often in a social group in a pub, but I always take eyes drifting to phones as a really bad sign, not far short of seeing somebody get out a book - strange that it's so much more acceptable.

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The Tale Of The Ale: Mobile Phones in Pubs - An Unwelcome Intrusion? #PhonesDown
Mobile Phones in Pubs - An Unwelcome Intrusion? #PhonesDown
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