PBS MediaShift | 5Across -- March 2010 | PBS

The latest 5Across video show from PBS MediaShift is about "Smartphone Etiquette," looking at the ways that people are using smartphones in awkward social situations, texting while driving, letting their phones ring at funerals, and more. Guests this month include comedian W. Kamau Bell, CNET's Nicole Lee, etiquette expert Syndi Seid, restaurant owner/chef Dan Scherotter, and human/machine psychologist Fernando Castrillon. While Scherotter says turning your phone off or on vibrate is the right way to enjoy a meal with friends at a restaurant, Bell responds that sometimes the call is more important than the company. More at http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/03/5across-smartphone-etiquette-and-our-la...

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• 5across
• mediashift
• mark glaser
• cell phones
• iphone
• smartphone
• mobile phone
• etiquette
• bluetooth headset
• w. kamau bell

[nafunkdegroove]

I lost my mobile phone 4 times the last 1.5 month. the first 3 times it fell down or i forgot it somewhere(i was at a festival, people where answering so i always found it!BOOM FESTIVAL). the 4th time i was back home. it fell again!

i was fed up looking at it all the time to see if theres a message or an unaswered call.

i decided not to buy another. now im so free. my people find me when im at home.

now i realize how destructed i was when i had it

[FriendlyWebmaster]

Smarter phone = dumber people. I worry about people's inability to be away a cell phone that beeps and rings making you feel like somewhere out there someone 'needs' or 'wants' you. Besides sadness, teens have to learn to deal with boredom and loneliness and with a device that beeps all the time to give you the impression that you are 'in a network' or 'have friends'. I have a crappy old phone and train people NOT to call me... EVER. No way it would be more important than people in my presence.

[FriendlyWebmaster]

Smarter phone = dumber people. I worry about people's inability to be away a cell phone that beeps and rings making you feel like somewhere out there someone 'needs' or 'wants' you. Besides sadness, teens have to learn to deal with boredom and loneliness and with a device that beeps all the time to give you the impression that you are 'in a network' or 'have friends'. I have a crappy old phone and train people NOT to call me... EVER. No way it would be more important than people in my presence.

[1207peetiebird]

that was okkk

[carole7777]

9:00 You never have the time to deal with developmental aspects, like sadness because you're always 'on'. We're losing out on things we wont realize for another 50 years.

[nafunkdegroove]

Informative and enjoyable!

[4eva68]

Very important.

Thanks...

[rManLOTHAR]

As much as I love technology, I've made it a point, that it WiLL NoT let it rule my life - and it really hasn't.

(but I do let other things rule my life) :}

[spenseravery]

it must B taught