Caller rudeness: Social fallout from cell phone use

Mark Lane for News.Journal Online writes an essay on telephone identity confusion (callers think he is his son) and on how people dive into telephone conversations wtihout any preamble or polite greeting - with caller ID, no need for introduction. Lane blames on mobile phones. "This tendency to plow into conversations without any preamble is another example of the bad social fallout from cell phone use".

"I was brought up believing it is rude to begin a phone call with anything remotely related to your actual reason for calling. Now, most callers have dispensed with a lot of preliminaries, the hellos, introductions and weather observations that used to preface telephone calls".

emily | 10:22 AM | Cell Phone Etiquette |
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