Mobile Devices Etiquette

January 20, 2017

Many of us have become very dependent on our mobile phones and unfortunately along the way, a lot of us have developed some bad habits.
How often do you see someone crossing the road while texting or talking on their phones?
Walk through a busy mall and you are constantly dodging the same people, their heads down and not watching where they are going. If you sit down for a coffee, it almost seems as though every second person has their smart phone out. I always wonder if couples are texting each other across the table, rather than having to engage in conversation.
Attend a function and invariably several phones will start ringing in the middle of a presentation.

We all need to look at our own behaviour and dependence on the phone.

I recently received some good advice from my son. He said we should treat our phone as if it was a handgun. In private you can take out and admire and play with it, but in public it should stay out of sight. The good thing about smart phones is you can turn off the sound or even more radical, sometimes you could turn the phone off completely.
Most of us are not that important that we need to be available every minute of the day.


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