Cellphone Etiquette

[jonnythan]

maybe you need more friends, then you can be more offensive like the rest of us.

I can try!

LOL

I talk to all my friends via IM, SMS, and in person. I hate phones.

[logitech104]

I hate phones.

So do I.
surprised?

[Rydr]

I really dislike cell phones. I have one that I use for emergencies when traveling. It's other wise off. It's on a pay as you go plan so it's cheap. I dislike people that drive their car with a cell phone stuck to the side of their head like some big chunk of cancer. Hey maybe that's what they'll end up with.

[DragonSlayer]

i don't have a cellphone i don't like em, and i rarely leave the house, and have no friends, so i pretty much answere calls for telemarketers, and if it's for me i'll just say he's dead.(gets em off the phone quick)

[blues2cruise]

My phone is often turned off. It has messaging. Cell phone use is rampant...like an addiction.
I think it makes them feel important.

[Shorts]

Cell phone ettiquete would be so nice. Here in JPN it is absolutely a BIG NO NO to use your cell phone in public (like restaurants, in subways, while driving)...it just a huge common courtesy thing. You cannot use the cell while driving either, that one will get you in a lot of trouble. If you need to call in public, you excuse yourself and go stand outside the in the parking lot or discrete corner, make it quick, make it quiet, then turm your phone off and get back to whoever's waiting. People do not carry their phones with the ringer on high either, especially if they go into restaurants or meetings.

I really like not hearing cells ringing or people gabbing on them.

Though talking on them isn't allowed, text messaging it huge. People do that all the time on the subway, walking down the street, riding their bicycles lol


The problem with the US is people have no common courtesy or human decency anymore. Everything is about "my rights!". Well that's fine and dandy. But what is legal sometimes oversteps common courtesy and consideration. People don't like doing that Living here has really shown us what it feels like to live in a society where courtesy and manners are paramount. It is nice and I wish it would catch on back home.

Edit: I want to say that living free of a cell phone contract is awesome!!! Around here what is used is a prepay type phone. You buy minutes (rated in yen) for like $30, it last a month or two. When you run out, you recharge it. Over here we don't use a cell phone for anything much. I can go days or weeks without using mine. It's pretty nice.

[flynrider]

Edit: I want to say that living free of a cell phone contract is awesome!!!

I got one for free from my employers. They thought it might help me to answer their pages quicker while I was on call. They took it away last month. Seems I only made one call on it last year.

Friends and family are always pestering me to get a cell phone. Apparently, it has become the norm to be available 24 hrs. a day for instant conversation when someone else is bored. No thanks.

When I hear the kind of "important" calls that people are using these phones for, I'm amazed. It seems people will call each other just to jabber about useless stuff. "Guess where I am?". "I'm at the grocery store, in the paper goods aisle." Who cares!

[CNF2002]

Edit: I want to say that living free of a cell phone contract is awesome!!!

I got one for free from my employers. They thought it might help me to answer their pages quicker while I was on call. They took it away last month. Seems I only made one call on it last year.

Friends and family are always pestering me to get a cell phone. Apparently, it has become the norm to be available 24 hrs. a day for instant conversation when someone else is bored. No thanks.

When I hear the kind of "important" calls that people are using these phones for, I'm amazed. It seems people will call each other just to jabber about useless stuff. "Guess where I am?". "I'm at the grocery store, in the paper goods aisle." Who cares!

x2! And personally, I don't need to hear someone yelling out the details of their disfunctional family.

True story: I'm in this store in line and the lady with her friend behind me answers the phone. Her conversation goes like this. "Hey. Whats up. What are you doing. Nothing, buying some pizza. Yeah, are you hungry? Go look in the fridge. Is Dominic there? Go call Dominic. Hey Dominic, whats up. Nothing, buying some pizza. Who's yelling over there. Why is his nose bleeding? Haha, she smacked him? Why? Why? Why? Why? Do you want some pizza? I'm just standing here in line."

And it went on for 20 freaking minutes.

[camthepyro]

I agree with roscowgo about the phone thing. I spend (with overtime) literally 50 hours a week on the phone (it's my whole job), and really don't like talking anymore than I have to.

But, I do think cell phones are a nice thing to have. I can call my gf on my lunch break, and ask her how her test was. Or let her know I'm going to be talking to somebody about buying my car, so I'll be late for dinner (both of these happened today.

[Candy750]

Hubby will only call if he's too drunk to drive. I assume he would call me if he was in jail. Other than that, he doesn't use it. I get home, he's not there, I figure he won't be home for dinner and get on with my life.

I have a cell that has 900 minutes in the plan, including long distance, free nights and weekendds. I use it to call my family, as we asre spread all over the country. My mom is in hospital, so we all have been talking to each other alot. So I guess I am glad for it - the convinience of knowing they all can get me, and the relief in knowing we have lots of talk time with no big bill.

I also use it because I have numbers programmed in...

I read a cloumn that described what you say about the meaningless talk - yeah, I'm on line waiting for my oatmeal muffin...like who is on the other end caring about someone else's muffin?