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Society's Rage

 Charisse Ono
February 26, 2001

Cellular Phone Rage

America's New Hang-Up: Cell Phone Rudeness

    Through technology, cell phones are able to connect a mother with a flat tire with a tow company in the middle of the night.  Or keep husbands and wives in touch with each other.  but who ever thought the cellular phone fad would escalate to where people would take calls while in the bathroom.  In result of this excess use of cellular phones restaurants, theaters, libraries, museums, and doctor offices have begun to ban use  of cellular phone.   

    In this article, America's New Hang-Up: Cell Phone Rudeness, Fox News looks into the use of cellular phones and problems it causes.  In this article Fox News offers a list for cellular phone users to avoid conflict and create incidences of cellular phone rage from occuring around them (see table below).  Some of the incidences that Fox News reported included doctors in Toronto have reported treated patients who were cellular phones user and irritated bystanders for injuries from black eyes to broken ribs. 

Etiquette tips for users of mobile or cell phones, culled from manners mavens, other experts and the cell phone industry itself:
• Remember, the person you're with should take precedence over a call.
• Utilize the phone's caller ID feature to screen incoming calls and let voice mail take them if they're not urgent.
• Use silent or vibrating options when indoors or in a close environment. Or just turn the phone off.
• Don't engage in "cell yell." Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, says there's no need to speak louder on your cell phone than you would on any other phone.
• Use text messaging if available.
• Keep your phone close at hand for first-ring answering.
• If you're in a noisy place, call back from somewhere quieter.
• Call other cell phone users during business hours not during meal times.
• If you have to keep your cell phone on during a meeting, explain in advance.
• Don't give out your cell number freely or leave it on your answering machine.
• Don't use a cell phone while driving. Pull over if you must take a call.
• Don't use it on a date — ever. It may be your last.
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/080200/cellphone.sml

 

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