Cell Phone Etiquette

I have a love/hate relationship with the cell phone. The convenience it provides is a great thing. The fact that people expect you to be reachable at all time is annoying. The cell phone simply affords me the opportunity to be available if I so choose. That is all. But I was just thinking of some rules or thoughts people should consider when using their phones.

1. Multiple calls in short period of time is annoying and unnecessary. Voice mail is there for a reason. Emergency is maybe the only exception to this rule.

2. Text messaging in excess or forwarding. First make sure the person you are sending messages has unlimited texting. More than 2 forwards a week is too many. Send that ish to my email if you have to.

3. Text Conversation. If it takes more than 5 back and forth texts then just call. Is talking really that bad? Or maybe it is just talking to me is that bad. Oh, and if you are in a place that you can't talk, then you probably don't need to be sending texts either.

4. Text part 2. If you are talking to someone either in person or on your cell phone texting someone else is extremely rude. If someone is talking to you in person do you like them to just mid conversation start talking to someone else?

5. Car calls. Don't spend an entire ride with someone on your damn cell phone. No one wants to sit there in silence while you have a conversation. I hate when I see three or four people in a car all on cell phones. Why are you together?

6. Courtesy on a date is to keep your phone on vibrate especially if it goes off a lot regularly. Also, don't check the phone more than twice while on a date (that is if you are interested in the person you are with).

7. If you are on the phone with other people while in someone elses company, you don't need to be around that person. They obviously don't interest you.

8. Don't talk on the phone while having dinner with someone.

9. Blocking your number to get someone to answer the phone is childish. That ish goes strait to voice mail anyways if it says private.

10. For safety, not texting while driving or conducting a train. Your text may make it through but you on the other hand may not (I say this like I don't do it).

This is just common courtesy. Please use.