It is quite handy to have cell phones around when you need to call someone or send an urgent message to the office or to your family. These devices are so commonly used that there have been protocol guidelines made to control using the phones in public. Sending text or SMS messages via cellular phones are becoming more common than making a call.
Texting is also a convenient feature most mobile phones have and has in recent years become more popular than calling someone over the phone. This makes it important to know proper etiquette concerning texting in public or while at work. Many people also receive texts while driving a vehicle. Texting while driving is also dangerous and against the law in some cities.
If you need to reply to an important message while you are driving, let your passenger read the message for you and reply to it for you if it is important. If you are a passenger in the automobile and need to reply to a text, inform your companion in the car that you need to reply to something urgent.
If you are in the middle of a conversation with someone, avoid reading an incoming text or replying to it. You can always check your phone after you finish your conversation and read and reply to the text in private. If the message it urgent, inform your friend that you need to quickly reply to the text.
You should consider setting your SMS tones to silent or to a low sounding single beep. Sometimes vibrating mobile cellular phones can be just as irritating as a ringing phone. Set your mobile devices to silent before entering a restaurant or meeting so as not to disturb or distract other people.
Avoid reading or replying to a text message from your phone while at the movies, a theatre or in a concert, even if your phone is on silent. Your mobile phone will light up and disturb other people watching a movie or play. The light coming from your mobile phone becomes more obvious in a dark movie house.
Being able to communicate via cell phones is very handy and the latest texting craze also calls for proper mobile phone etiquette just like calling. Although you do not talk over your phone when receiving a message or replying to a text, you can still distract other people around you by typing in messages on your device.
Texting is also a convenient feature most mobile phones have and has in recent years become more popular than calling someone over the phone. This makes it important to know proper etiquette concerning texting in public or while at work. Many people also receive texts while driving a vehicle. Texting while driving is also dangerous and against the law in some cities.
If you need to reply to an important message while you are driving, let your passenger read the message for you and reply to it for you if it is important. If you are a passenger in the automobile and need to reply to a text, inform your companion in the car that you need to reply to something urgent.
If you are in the middle of a conversation with someone, avoid reading an incoming text or replying to it. You can always check your phone after you finish your conversation and read and reply to the text in private. If the message it urgent, inform your friend that you need to quickly reply to the text.
You should consider setting your SMS tones to silent or to a low sounding single beep. Sometimes vibrating mobile cellular phones can be just as irritating as a ringing phone. Set your mobile devices to silent before entering a restaurant or meeting so as not to disturb or distract other people.
Avoid reading or replying to a text message from your phone while at the movies, a theatre or in a concert, even if your phone is on silent. Your mobile phone will light up and disturb other people watching a movie or play. The light coming from your mobile phone becomes more obvious in a dark movie house.
Being able to communicate via cell phones is very handy and the latest texting craze also calls for proper mobile phone etiquette just like calling. Although you do not talk over your phone when receiving a message or replying to a text, you can still distract other people around you by typing in messages on your device.
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