The Ultimate Guide To Cell Phone Decorum
The Ultimate Guide To Cell Phone Decorum
The ability to keep in touch with family, friends, and business is important. But these days cell phones also allow you to access email, store data, take pictures and videos, listen to music, and surf the net. They are super convenient and time-saving, but your cell phone can also cause you to waste a lot of time and be a generally all-around annoying person.
Keep conversations private.
Turn off your phone.
Don’t multitask.
Never have extended cell conversations in the company of others.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
I completely agree. Especially number 2. When I’m meeting with someone, they are the most important person to me at that time. And I silence my phone to make that completely clear.
Thanks Juli. You know things have gone too far when churches have to post signs to turn off cell phones (as at my church)! So much for quiet reflection.
What a great reminder! My phone is always in do not disturb mode so I don’t have to worry about most of these. I try to flip my phone upside down when out and socializing so I don’t feel as much of a draw to interact with it. Great tips!
Thanks Jamie. I also have my phone ringer off most of the time and I also turn off all ding notifications. It keeps the interruptions down for me.
Love this…we are allowing our phones to dictate our behavior and not for the better!
I totally agree Donna.
Thank you for sharing this reminder. It’s important and people are not mentioning it as much anymore, I’m not sure why.
I hope it’s because people have become more aware.
I would extend that to include walking down the street. It’s one thing if you’re having a conversation, but it makes me crazy to see people walking with their nose in their phone, especially if they have a dog with them.
It’s dangerous too!
It’s fascinating that we even need to talk about cell phone etiquette. These devices have become commonplace in our lives. And in many instances, they are disruptive. So it’s essential to establish some “rules.” I am pretty good about turning off the sound on my phone when I’m entering a meeting, performance, or other group situations. However, one day in yoga class, even though I had turned off the sound, there was some alarm that went off anyway. Yikes! At first, I didn’t realize it was my device because I knew I had turned the volume off. And when I realized it WAS mine, I quickly turned it off and was so embarrassed. Now I turn off my phone all together during class. For those 60+ minutes, I’m unreachable, and that is fine with me. Plus, I don’t risk disturbing my teacher or classmates.
Sounds like your alarm went off. I use my alarm daily as a reminder for myself, when I have scheduled phones calls or meetings that I have to tend to.
Nowadays, most people engage with their phones while trying to focus on something else. It’s very annoying!! So, this article will help to make them more conscious about Phone-Tech Etiquette. So thank you very much for sharing this informative post.
We have turned into a world of multi-taskers and it’s not good. Looking at your phone and not paying attention to the person in front of you is very rude. Don’t you think?
Yes! I think so. It’s very annoying and rude! I hate this kind of manner. Thank you for your reply.