Cellphone Etiquette

To many of us in the developed western world it would appear that everyone and their dog now has a mobile phone. But we all need to remember that around 50% of the worlds population have never received or made a telephone call.

This really highlights the technological gulf that exists between the developed countries and the developing countries.

But many would argue that, while mobile phones can be enormously useful, they can also be incredibly irritating. Have you recently used any form of public transport?

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 way home on the train from London each evening I'm forced to listen to people calling their partners simply to tell them that they are on the train. And I see and hear the same people making the same calls with the same pointless message every day. What did they do before they had a mobile phone?

I'm also forced to listen to the inane conversations of teenagers that make no sense whatsoever. Their conversations seem to be focused on their boring lives, the television programmes they've been watching or criticising their boyfriends. 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 exactly what had taken place everyone in the train compartment was cringing 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. Owning a mobile phone is not a god given right, it's a privelige that should not be provided to people who use it to describe their sex lives, loudly.

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