Mobile Phone Etiquette
We see it everywhere; people standing on the sidewalk
talking on their phone. It annoys us in restaurants: phone
ring in the quiet ambiance of your favourite eating place.
We walk down the street and their are people everywhere
having one way conversations at the top of their voices.
An what about this one: people pacing aimlessly talking
on their phone. Is it impossible to keep still and talk?
Since the introduction of mobile phones into our society,
our world stands forever changed. With mobile phone lines
outnumbering landlines in several countries, more people
are drawn into the 21st century even if their surroundings
prove otherwise.
Once just a luxury for the rich and famous, mobile phones
are now commonplace in day to day living. But owning a
mobile phone doesn’t automatically mean the user knows
proper phone etiquette.
In fact the use of mobile phones seems to have given people
permission to be rude and not be accountable.
One such instance is in driving. Many states today are
trying to pass laws that ban drivers from using any sort of
handheld phone unit while operating a vehicle.
They have proven a distraction and in society today when we
are constantly on the move and in a hurry, we tend to
multi-task more and pay attention less to what is going on
around us.
Mobile phone etiquette has become such a problem that
places of business are now beginning to ban the use of the
mobile devices while there.
Movie theaters require that you turn your ringer off while
inside. The National Association of Theater Operators is
currently petitioning the FCC to make movie theaters exempt
from the communications act of 1934.
Basically what this will do is make it legal to block cell
phone signals in the movie theater. But it wouldn’t have
gone this far if people just did the right thing to begin
with.
