Top 12 Cell Phone Etiquette

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1. Lower your voice when talking calls in public
2. Avoid personal topics when others can hear you
3. Avoid taking calls when your are already engaged in face-to-face conversation. (If you do take a call, ask permission of the people with you)
4. Avoid texting during face-to-face conversations.
5. Out your phone ringer on silent mode in theaters and restaurants.
6. Don't light up your phone's screen in a dark theater
7. Hang up and drive
8. Acknowledge the delay (All phone calls involve latency, which means there's a delay between when you speak and when theother person hears it.
9. Don't use google voice call screening with family and close friends
10. Don't blame the other person for a dropped call. If you make 100 calls per week, you can expect to experience between 2-4 dropped calls each and every week.
11. Avoid looking things up during a conversation.
12. Avoid inappropriate profile pictures. (Facebook lets users synchronize Facebook contact information, including profile pictures with their cell phone address books)