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Has Social Etiquette Changed with introduction of new digital technology?
drventure:
Texting or emailing when someone's talking to you is rude, pure and simple.
Set the phone on vibrate, you get buzzed, you finish up the conversation normally, then mosey off for a bit and check your message elsewhere.
Common sense and courtesy seems to be dieing out quickly.
I remember once, I was interviewing a guy for a programmer position. This was back maybe 10 years ago. I liked the guy, he knew his stuff and I thought he'd probably fit in good with the team. Then his phone rang in the interview and he said "Hang on just a sec", talked to someone about lunch plans and then hung up and said "where were we?"
I said "I'll get back to you"
Sunglasses and hats don't bother me, but then I'm from Texas, where people wear their hats to church and sunglasses to movies. :)
Benevolance:
I sincerely hope that those backwards sunglass idiots are infected by those creepy little brain aliens from the end of the first season of star trek - you know the ones that have the little tail sticking out of the brain stem and make you eat worms - and that those aliens are simply showing good sense enough to want UV protection or simply a clever disguise.
Sunglasses in a theatre? For real? I'd get upset, but I suspect most texans have guns and I'm allergic to being shot and killed.
R0UNDEYEZ:
--- Quote ---Actually, I hate a lot of things about people. A decade of working in customer service will do that to a person.
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hahaha I haven't worked customer service quite that long ,but I'm getting close and I think you are totally on the mark there.
The general public as a whole is rude, self centered, and in general a bunch of idiots with an over inflated sense of entitlement. I have wondered if its a Californian thing, or an American thing, or if people just suck, and I am leaning towards people just sucking.
--- Quote ---Texting or emailing when someone's talking to you is rude, pure and simple.
Set the phone on vibrate, you get buzzed, you finish up the conversation normally, then mosey off for a bit and check your message elsewhere.
Common sense and courtesy seems to be dieing out quickly.
--- End quote ---
Agree 100% with this .
wp34:
One thing my wife and I have noticed is that parents who come to pick up their kids at our house don't come to the door. They just text their child while they are waiting in the driveway. Makes it hard to get to know the parents of your friends kids. Or maybe they are trying to tell us something. ;D
shateredsoul:
Hmm.. it might be a West and Eastcost thing, or maybe a city thing? One of my Boss' is from somewhere in the midwest.. and I couldn't imagine her saying any rude thing. She's also from a different generation, where you knew all ofyour neighbors and not embarrassing to live with your parents (but is seen as a typical and good thing.. since it's seen more as valuing family rather than as if you were leeching off of them).
Maybe that's why in other countries many U.S. Citizens are seen as rude? In school, advertising, and media it seems that the focus is on the individual rather than our responsibility towards others (unless it's an armed forces commercial).
So maybe our technology reflect that? and has been built with that in mind? rather than the technology shaping us, we've shaped the technology to be individualistic. No?
--- Quote from: R0UNDEYEZ on June 01, 2010, 08:43:17 pm ---
--- Quote ---Actually, I hate a lot of things about people. A decade of working in customer service will do that to a person.
--- End quote ---
hahaha I haven't worked customer service quite that long ,but I'm getting close and I think you are totally on the mark there.
The general public as a whole is rude, self centered, and in general a bunch of idiots with an over inflated sense of entitlement. I have wondered if its a Californian thing, or an American thing, or if people just suck, and I am leaning towards people just sucking.
--- Quote ---Texting or emailing when someone's talking to you is rude, pure and simple.
Set the phone on vibrate, you get buzzed, you finish up the conversation normally, then mosey off for a bit and check your message elsewhere.
Common sense and courtesy seems to be dieing out quickly.
--- End quote ---
Agree 100% with this .
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