Is it the world or just me?

Ok, this is about texting. I'll admit I'm not a tech kind of person, as for computers,I can log into web sites and thats about it. My cell phone is just that, a phone.It doesn't text or surf the world wide web. I believe in yapping on a phone or talking face to face, I hate email too. It seems like people will stop talking in mid sentence to whip out their phones to answer or too just text. Is it common knowledge that texting supersedes face to face and I missed the memo, or is it just plain rude?

It's just rude.
My cell phone is used as a phone only too.
But, i guess i'm old and behind the times.