Personally I think that people should have to learn some simple etiquette before they are sold computers, cellphones or cars. It's not the fact that cellphones exist that is the problem, it's the fact that people do not know how and when to use them.
In my classes I'm constantly telling people to turn off their cellphones or to stop sending text messages while I'm lecturing. As a matter of point if I see someone looking at their phone while I'm lecturing I will stop and wait for them to finish. A few times of this embarrasing silence ends the practice by any student. Why computers? We all know the meaning of the word netiquette... some folks still need to learn what it is. Again, with my students there are times when I have to pointedly remind them that they're at school to learn and do their assigned work, not play games on the lab computers. Last quarter I was running group projects and had those waiting to present waiting in a classroom. I had signed in to the instructor's PC so I could enter attendance and get it ready for the students to run a power point presentation and not once but twice I had to tell the same student to stop playing games on the INSTRUCTOR PC. There used to be a driver's etiquette... maybe in some places it's still practiced but as other threads have pointed out some folks either don't know about or don't give two flips about them any more. Let's face it, just about everyone can do something either intentionally or unintentional that is going to piss someone else off - some folks just do it more often than others. Hatton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:185575 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
