At the beginning of this quarter I was quite surprised to see a section of information that was in many professor’s syllabi. It was a section on classroom etiquette and it was almost entirely about the use of cell phones in class. It made me realize how bad people’s manners are with respect to cell phone usage. For example, I find it very strange that people use their cell phones during dinner. Growing up, my family would always get together for dinner and we would not be allowed to do anything during that time other than eat and converse. Even now when I come home, I cannot have my cell phone out at the table. This ‘training’ has caused me to find it very strange when people will pull out their cell phones during dinner and sit there and talk to someone else when they are surrounded by a group of friends that they could talk to instead. It also bothers me when I’m having a conversation with somebody and their phone will ring and they will drop our conversation to have this texting conversation with someone else, and then they say, “Sorry about that, what were we talking about again?” I find it funny that they apologize, knowing that it is somewhat bad, and then will continue to do it.
A google search for cell phone etiquette provides some very good information that everyone should follow. I agree with almost all of the points they mention, and I think that most people will, but I know that very few people will actually follow them. Scrolling through the list, I say to myself, “yeah, I don’t do that and I don’t do that and I don’t do that…. I’m pretty good about all this, but I KNOW that some of that is an error in my ‘self-reporting.’ I would really like it if there was a way for someone to follow my usages and see how good my cell phone etiquette actually is. I think MANY people would be surprised by their results. It might actually be a way for people to realize their behavior and do something about their poor etiquette.
See this article for some interesting rules to live by:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/26/cell-phone-etiquette-15-r_n_514927.html
See this article for some interesting rules to live by:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/26/cell-phone-etiquette-15-r_n_514927.html