Date: 24 Nov 2009 Comments: 0

Cell phone etiquette or when not to answer your cell phone!

To many of us in the developed western world it would appear that everyone and their dog now has a mobile phone. But we all need to remember that around 50% of the worlds population have never received or made a telephone call.

This highlights how lucky we are to have access to affordable telecommunications and the technological gap that exists between the developed countries and those in the developing world.

But many would argue that, while mobile phones can be enormously useful, they can also be incredibly irritating. Have you recently used any form of public transport?

On my routine journeys to and from London on the train I am forced to listen to various telephone conversations that would never have taken place if it wasn’t for mobile phones. On my homeward journey I regularly listen to people calling their partners just to tell them: ‘I’m on the train’. And I see and hear the same people making the same calls with the same pointless message every day. How did they manage before mobile phones?

I’m also forced to listen to teenagers engaged in long drawn out conversations that don’t appear to make any sense. Their conversations seem to be focused on their boring lives, the television programmes they’ve been watching or criticising their boyfriends. In one recent conversation a young lady loudly shared the details of a recent sexual experience with a detailed account of what took place. Everyone in the carriage was squirming in their seats with embarrassment as she proceeded to describe her experience, blow by blow.

Being forced to listen to what should be private conversations is just one aspect of modern mobile phone use that is highly anti-social. Another is those incredibly irritating and often far too loud ringtones that are supposed to sound like a popular tune but don’t.

We all need to remember how lucky we are to even have mobile phones. They need to be used considerately and ideally they should never be provided to people who use them to loudly describe their sex lives.

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