Do you practice mobile etiquette?

Is mobile etiquette important to you?

  • Yes

    Votes: 40 85.1%

  • No

    Votes: 7 14.9%
  • Total voters
    47
I try to be as discreet as possible with my phone. It's on silent/vibrate most of the time rather than annoy the next person with ringtones.

The one pet-hate I have with mobiles is the people who talk exceptionally louder on a mobile... and loud enough so that the next Joe could almost hear 'im a mile away :(
 
Do I practice mobile etiquette?

Dunno, but I'm close to practicing mobile murder on a few persons, whom all believe that cellular communication is done by voice waves rather than radio waves.
 
Hate all the BBMers in the cenima. Seriously now. Why go out if only to be stuck on your phone?
 
Yes, it is a pet peeve of mine. E.g. ...

1) When I come into your shop as a customer and start talking to you (the sales person), and the phone rings, please do not pick it up and start talking to someone else while you are still helping me. The person on the phone can wait their turn.
2) People in restaurants or crowded places. If you have to take a call please go out of the room. And please use your inside voice, not your outside voice.
3) In the Cinema. Just shut your dang phone off and quit playing with it during the movie.
4) If you have to borrow my phone, please wipe off the ear-piece BEFORE you give it back to me, because I might offend you when I wipe it off in front of you. Ears are dirty things, and I don't care to have your face oil or ear wax on my phone, or even worse, on my ear.

etc...
 
Yes and the crying baby ringtone should be banned.
 
The fool on a golf course who is more busy with his bussiness than with golf. Sir, I have never played golf in your office. Why play office while you are suppose to play golf??
Maybe your company will go under if you leave it for 5 hours. If you can't afford the game stay at work.
 
54% of respondents feel that the mobile phone is a symbol of status..err....of being easily hypnotised by new shiny things.

Quite. Have you ever been walking in a crowded place when someone's phone rings, and they turn instantly into a moving obstruction - unaware of just where they are in time and space?
 
I always do. i don't want people to hear me speaking anyway.
Some people seem to want everyone to hear them lol
 
Ive been on two flights where BBMers were on thier phones untill they were told to turn them off by cabin crew. noobs
 
Not sure what it is BBM, but sudden access to it seems to make some users mind-numb to the world around them. My missus is not an exception. Attached at the hip. It pings and regardless of where she is or what doing or who talking to, she cannot resist looking up the message, and replying :mad:
 
McT said:
Not sure what it is BBM, but sudden access to it seems to make some users mind-numb to the world around them. My missus is not an exception. Attached at the hip. It pings and regardless of where she is or what doing or who talking to, she cannot resist looking up the message, and replying :mad:
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i have the same disorder haha
 
We went to a game lodge over the weekend, away from the city, from cars, from electronics (apart from the TV & aircon in the room), from work, from all that buzz. We're in the bush, and while having lunch on the balcony at the restaurant (only facilities for food) there was a guy who's phone rang constantly, but instead of answering or silencing it he just left it to ring. I guess someone whom he didn't want to speak to tried calling him. Perhaps the taxman, or his mistress or work or something. Anyhow I got so annoyed that I went over to his table, took the phone and removed the battery. The guy wasn't pleased with me at all, but I think the cheering of some of the other people there quieten him down quickly.

Some people are just plain rude when it comes to cellphones. The worst kind are those who answer their phones in the cinema, conference or meeting. I don't care who they are, I will silence them :)
 
ttygt said:
Do I practice mobile etiquette?

Dunno, but I'm close to practicing mobile murder on a few persons, whom all believe that cellular communication is done by voice waves rather than radio waves.
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+1

Even worse are the jackasses that walk around playing music using their phone's loudspeaker. The level of inconsideration is astounding nowadays.

Interestingly, the survey suggests that our emotional connection to our mobile devices is so strong we might even call it an addiction: more than half of us are willing to sacrifice chocolate or sweets for a week, rather than be without our treasured devices.
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This is one of THE MOST retarded statements I've ever read. Of course people would rather go without sweets for a week than be without a cellphone. Sweets serve no useful purpose compared to a cellphone. The inconvenience of going without a cellphone for a week far outweighs the benefits of eating sweets. It has nothing to do with emotions/addiction and is a perfectly rational decision. Ntombezinhle Modiselle needs a lesson in marginal utility. Intel marketing department fail.
 
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