Golden Rule number 1 - Keep it quiet
If you must chat on your phone in an enclosed public space, at least keep the volume down. Especially if you’re busy telling someone what form of transport you’re on.
Golden Rule number 2 - Keep it quiet
The mobile savvy user is careful to speak in hushed tones, knowing that a mobile phone has a sensitive microphone capable of picking up a soft voice.
Golden Rule number 3 - Keep it quiet
The mobile savvy user also sets the ring tone at a low level with a tune that is soft, gentle and not annoying. Ringtones that sound like frogs, water or ‘Axel F’ by Harold Faltermeyer aren’t as amusing as you think they are.
Golden Rule number 4 - Keep it quiet - seeing a trend yet???
The more crowded the situation, the quieter and softer the volume of voice and ring – please! We don’t like knowing your personal information, especially if its last night’s drunken exploits with some girl you picked up in the pub.
The mobile savvy user moves to vibrate in any situation like a church, a train, a workshop or a meeting where a ringing sound would prove disturbing to other people.
The mobile savvy user tries to gain as little phone attention as possible. The goal is to communicate effectively without anybody else noticing or caring. Not to brag about your notches on the beadstead, or the amounts of alcohol you can consume without barfing. Or, for that matter, the amount of barfing you actually did.
The mobile phone bore speaks loudly and employs loud, obnoxious ring tones at all the wrong times and in all the wrong places. The mobile phone bore calls attention to herself or himself- and apparently enjoys it whilst no-one else does!!
Some people seem incapable of speaking on their mobile phone in a normal tone of voice. Perhaps they are subconsciously worried that the party on the other end cannot hear them very well, so they double and triple their volume. Sometimes it seems as if they are shouting – guess what? They are shouting, and we can ALL hear you!Watch the reactions of people near the mobile phone bore when the voice or the ringer are too loud. The mobile phone bore is not a popular person – I wonder why??? Hmmmm, I see a social study coming on, paid by some university.
So, want do something useful with your old mobile once you’ve got a newer one to irritate us with?
Prise a handout from your handset – Request a Freepost envelope from either www.envirophone.co.uk or www.mazumamobile.com, post them back your old mobile and donate the cash they give you to charity.
On the other hand if you are playing Bingo at home, you can be as loud as you like with all the chat sounds – no-one will mind!! Go ahead, make all your noise with your mates at home online in Bingo chat, and please leave the rest of us in peace when travelling with you. It’s a fair compromise!
