TECHNOLOGY has outstripped morality. Hacking, phone tapping, Internet and mobile phone bullying – I know we are now able to do all these things and many more besides, but should we?

Are we teaching children that along with all this wonderful technology comes a moral obligation to think of the wider consequences of every action?

How many adults with a phone pressed to their ear in the bus, train or in front of their children, play out hospital visits, marriage and relationship break-ups or personal details of other people?

Once the phone is by their ear, they imagine all around are deaf.

Why are youngsters allowed to hide away in bedrooms “hacking” into things that they needn’t know about? Who is teaching them that?

“Just because I can” is morally wrong and can harm many people.

Technology moves so fast but we must make some attempt to keep up the standards we wish to live by. We are responsible if we pass the buck.

JANE MADDEN, Wards Park, Old Marston, Oxford