We have talked about cell phone use before, but a reminder from time to time is not out of place. This week we look at some of the rules. The reading will not be long, but your answers will be important. Go to the link below and read the article. Write a reflective comment that shows you have read the article, expresses your views, and addresses my questions.
What percentage of the rules in the article do you follow? Which is your most frequent offense? What irritates you the most about other people’s cell phone use? A question from the article: When should an incoming call take priority over the situation at hand? What will happen to cell phone etiquette as more and more people have them and as children grow up using them?
Cell Phone Etiquette Article
7 comments:
I think I follow about 60% of what's in the article. There are some things that I never heard of such as the phone tagging. I wouldn't waste my phone credit on playing tag. I think the most frequent offense is using phone while driving. If someone take their cell phone with them to a theater, and they don't keep their phones switched off or in silent, that would irritate me the most. I have experienced many people doing that. There phone rings in the middle of a movie playing, that's really irritating. We should give priority to an incoming call when we are alone and not busy. I think that way, you will not bore the caller by talking to someone else or doing some other work. Since, you are alone, no one will get distracted by your call. As more people start to use cell phones, cell phone etiquette will go more out of hand unless people start to follow proper rules of using cell phones like the ones discussed in the article.
I think that a a lot of the percentage in the article follows. my most frequent offense is calling someone when someone else is trying to have a conversation with me. What irritates my the most about other people's cell phones is when they talk on the phone while driving, they don't pay enough attention to the road and have close collisions. I think that a incoming call should be taken in priority when it is your parent. I think that cell phone etiquette will become less and less because people will not notice as much what they are doing. They will not think anything about it.
Mostly, I keep the rules in the article. Calling someone during the conversation, and answering the phone while driving offenses me the most. Driving is beyond the problem of etiquette it deals with person's life. Incoming call should take priority when person is free, or when he get a excuse from his partner. As cell phone is widely and early used, cell phone's etiquette will be more precised, as they won't take the issues seriously.
I think i follow most of the % in the article, but i have not ever done phone tag and would not waste money doing so. I get irritated when people talk on the phone and drive at the same time. I dont really think that cell etiquette is really important though. I think if you need to use your phone , do so, but not if it will annoy others in the process.
I follow about half of the rules in this article. My most frequent offense would have to be either lighting my screen in dark places such as movie theaters, or the proximity rule. Actually, not much really irritates me about others’ cell phone use, but I do not like it when people text or send obviously personal messages in plain view of others when they are supposed to be doing something else as a group. As for incoming calls, I tend to give them priority unless I am doing something of critical importance – for example, I would not take a call if I were taking a test, but I would if I were hanging out with friends. I would simply excuse myself beforehand. Cell phone etiquette will probably get more informal, as the number of users increase, in my opinion.
I follow all of the rules as I always keep my phone on silent. My most frequent offense is lighting up my phone screen in a dark room. I'm not really irritated by much, but phone tagging would really annoy me.An incoming call should only have priority over a face to face conversation when it involves injuries, death or birth. I believe that when people will uses more phones, phone etiquette will become most important but less frequent.
I follow about 80% of the rules mentioned. My most frequent event is sending text messages while talking to a friend. I hate it wen people light up their phone in the movies. The incoming call should take priority when it is from a parent because there might be an emergency. If the phone etiquette should make cell phone use more mannered and will teach children how to respect the people around them
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