Mobile Phone Etiquette

This is such a problem! Cell phone are everywhere! You can be walking and see several on the street with you. Might even be yourself. In you car look at a stop light and see several people
around you on theirs.
When people do not know how to function or they become truly and fully addicted to them is the sad part. Whether it is a regular cell phone, iPhone, or a BlackBerry, there is a time and a place. But more importantly there is Not the time and NOT the place. Before you all think that i am knocking cell phone and that we should get ride of them, it is quite the opposite. I am slightly dependant on my BlackBerry. Below are some times that it is not the place to us you phone.

1. If you are in the a line up and talking ok that is cool. Keep it to a soft conversation. When you get to the front of the line and are talking to a sales person or what have you END the call. So rude to try and talk to both. if you are unable to do that get out of the line or let someone a head of you.

2. Do not talk on your phone in the gym, or at the theatre. In the gym there is no reason to use you phone other then maybe listening to music or if you are a doctor and on call. In the theatre as soon as the show or performance starts the phone goes away or off.

3. When you are with real people take it easy on the phone. Use of it here and there is alright. Just remember that you are out with a real person that deserves your attention. An American Senator had his funding pulled because he answered a text while in a meeting with his funders.

Mobiles phones are tools for life, not out partners or our friends. The help us and make things more convenient so we have more time with ourselves and others that we need to or value and love. Do not let them rule your life. Put them down every now and again.