Wireless Geekz

Do you Practice Proper Mobile Phone Etiquette?

Here in the west nearly everyone now has a mobile phone. But it should be remembered that around half of the world’s population have never made or received 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 people think that mobile phones are actually more irritating than they are useful. Have you used a bus or a train lately?

I have to take the train to and from London every day and I find myself forced to listen to mobile conversations that I would far rather not hear. On my homeward journey I regularly listen to people calling their partners just to tell them: ‘I’m on the train’. And every day I have to listen to the same people making the same pointless calls, just because they can. What did they do before they had a mobile phone?

I’m also forced to listen to teenagers engaged in long drawn out conversations that don’t appear to make any sense. Often, they seem to be discussing their boring, empty lives or scathingly criticizing an alleged friend’s dress sense or discussing boyfriends in unflattering terms. In one conversation that a young lady chose to share with the occupants of a packed commuter train she cheerfully derided a young man’s sexual prowess with grizzly attention to detail. As she proceeded to describe her experience in far too much detail everyone in the compartment was squirming with embarassment.

Forcing other people to listen to one side of your telephone conversation is just one aspect of modern mobile phone use that is incredibly annoying. Another is people’s choice of annoyingly irritating ring tones and yet another is playing music loudly without consideration for others.

We all need to be reminded of how lucky we are to even own mobile phones. People who use their mobile phones to describe their sex lives should be banned from owning them.

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