Tag: TECH ETIQUETTE

Rude cell phone behavior is a familiar nuisance to everyone. We've all been annoyed at some point by a person talking loudly in public, or swerving across the highway as they hammer out a text message. Polling firm Harris Interactive recently conducted an Intel-commissioned tech-etiquette survey of 2,160 U.S. adults. The resulting statistics are interesting, predictable, and frustrating. As ...

Ever check a text message or take a phone call at the dinner table? Maybe sneak a glance at that e-mail which just set your BlackBerry abuzz? Shame on you, says Dr. Cindy Post Senning in a recent New York Times article. Author of the new "Emily Post's Table Manners for Kids," Dr. Post Senning admonishes any sort of gadget use at the dinner table. She reminds us: "The family meal is a social event, ...

The micro-blogging site Twitter, along with its 140-character-or-less messages known as "tweets," is continuing to earn daily references from media outlets, but to the uninitiated it can seem confusing, narcissistic and creepily voyeuristic. In reality, it serves as an instant and simple method of keeping in contact with family and friends, or for reading the latest news from favored ...

According to the Arab News, a Saudi man, who was busy in Iraq participating in "what he described as 'jihad'," found the time to send his wife a text message, alerting her that he had divorced her. This is the first documented divorce in Saudi Arabia executed by text message, according to a Reuters report at Yahoo! News. Under Islamic Sharia Law, a man need only say "I divorce you" three times to ...

One of the newest weapons in the arsenal of stalkers is text messaging. Texting has two major perks for those hell-bent on harassment: the constant attachment folks have to their cell phones and the tendency of handsets to pester their owners until unopened messages are viewed. These aspects make harassment via text message particularly difficult to ignore or escape. So-called "textual ...

The plight of the unemployed is front page news in this country, and with good reason. Millions of people have lost their jobs and and are now facing a very uncertain future. What hasn't been discussed (at least not by us) are the people doing the firing. Laying off an employee cannot be easy in the first place (unless the person doing it is a sociopath/sadist). And with the line between ...

The most annoying thing about cell phones -- for both owners and the people around them -- is that often they go off in the most inappropriate places. We hit the streets and asked a few folks to share some of their most embarrassing accidental cell phone ringing stories. Some of the answers also got us wondering: Is it okay to take a phone call in the bathroom? To find out, click ...

You'd figure that by now we would have fixed cell phone microphones. For some reason, most cell phones still require you to all but yell to make sure the party on the other end can hear you. Not surprisingly, people find loud talking on a cell phone incredibly annoying. In fact, according to a survey from easyMobile, people found loud talking the most annoying of all the obnoxious mobile phone ...