Cell phone etiquette

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  1. Le Chef

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    My adult daughter carries a "bullet point" organizer to keep notes, dates to remember, to do lists, and her personal calendar. When I told her I currently keep that stuff on a phone, she said she doesn't like to take out her phone in the presence of friends, as it's rude, so if she has a thought or wants to check a date, she opens this book. It does seem less insensitive, I guess.

    I notice groups of young people sitting around and they're not talking to each other. The worst is observing parents out at dinner with small kids and both parents are absorbed by their devices.

    Where are you on this subject?
     
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    I totally agree. People are losing the art interpersonal communications. After leaving the military I spent a couple of decades making multimillion dollar deals with US and allied militaries. The deals were based on handshakes, eye contact and trust. Many deals were made over a beer at dinner. Young folks have never learned to do this. I made some good money before I retired making face-to-face deals for young execs who were very uncomfortable communicating in a non-digital way.
     
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    animated-smileys-thinking-17.gif When humans begin having sexual relations with their smartphones I will worry — but not very much .
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    " What the Hell did he just say .. ? ! "
     
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    They do... $2.99 per minute
     
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    :blushes: ~ Remember — " Smartphones are non-binary " ... :phonecall:
     
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    I use a week at a glance calendar in which I write the important telephone numbers in the back and all the dates of importance. I have a separate address book but I don't carry it around with me. I sometimes write to-do's in my calendar but usually I do list and to-do's on post-its that I place wherever I think they might most likely be seen when I needed to be reminded--might be in the calendar, might be on a monitor or fridge or car digital display. I am very analog when it comes to stuff like this because I am very very bad about breaking cellphones. I go through 2 or 3 a year and usually have 2 on me at any given time--1 for work and 1 for me. My work has cell phone policies about getting permission to install things, etc so I just keep it as flavorless as possible and only use it for work related calls and internet searches.
     
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    I hated smartphones until two years ago. Now I cannot imagine how I would ever go back to not using one. I could "survive", I suppose, but the phone makes almost everything I do so much easier.
     
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    Yeah she's completely right and other people notice unless they're doing the same thing, but it interferes with connecting with them.
     
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    I hate when people in public places share their conversation on their phone very loudly.

    Now they would think I was rude, if I interject myself into the conversation and ask the loud mouth on the phone how was so and so doing or what the hell was so and so thinking?

    And then if they got offended I would say oh I'm sorry I thought you wanted me to be part of the conversation too
     
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    Conversation has always been something like 99% meaningless banter that no one actually enjoys but rather tolerate in the hopes of tripping over that 1% of something that will actually be a meaningful discussion. I often engage in the same sort of behavior- giving Skynet all my attention instead of someone sitting across the table from me who is doing exactly the same thing. I'm fully aware of it, I expect most other people are as well. It beats talking about the weather or your kids grades in school that are good but could be better or my plot to get rich metal detecting for gold in the local streams... we all just arent really all that interesting, especially to others.
     
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    I hate that too. But I also do that. For whatever reason, my 'phone' speaker stopped working some time ago, and the only way I can hear what the other person is saying is to put it on the music speaker. Sure, I could just get a new phone, but I'm a cheapskate. Also I HATE talking on the phone. I text or email. If I'm talking on the phone, its cuz someone called me, so feel free to break yourself into the conversation, hopefully it'll make them hang up and text me :D
     
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    I do use text at times but I hate having to text back and forth five times when I could just pick up the phone and have a 60 second conversation.
     
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