| There are certain things people just shouldn't do | | | | is around.10. Talk to your parents and then |
| with cell phones! Like talking in the grocery store | | | | pretend to lose the connection so you don't have |
| line while trying to pay for your groceries, talking | | | | to talk to them anymore!Do:1. Text message |
| in church (like nobody will notice!), talking while | | | | whenever possible.2. Learn how to text message |
| driving and eating and talking to the people in the | | | | with normal capitalization - not ALL CAPS.3. Surf |
| car or talking in the middle of class!Hey - I love | | | | the web on your own time - not in the middle of |
| my cell phone as much as anybody else, but | | | | a conversation.4. Turn your cell phone to silent |
| people are starting to go overboard! You can't | | | | vibrate when you are in church.5. Turn your cell |
| have a conversation with a person before their | | | | phone off when you are at the movies (or at |
| cell phone rings and then they get text messages | | | | least don't check the messages - we can all see |
| and then they have to surf the web and then | | | | that screen light up!).6. Figure out how to turn |
| their voice mail goes off because the phone was | | | | your cell phone to silent/vibrate (nobody wants to |
| too busy to receive any actual calls. Come on! | | | | hear 'My Boo' or 'Drop it Like It's Hot' because |
| Enough is enough.And, in that spirit, following is an | | | | you can't operate your phone).7. Ask people if |
| official lists of Cell Phone Do's and Don't's (please | | | | they want their picture taken.8. Show people the |
| don't take this list personally - but if you do, then | | | | pictures you took - don't post them as your |
| you know that problem applies to you!):Don't:1. | | | | wallpaper because they look so 'crazy'.9. Offer |
| Talk on your cell phone at church2. Talk on your | | | | your cell phone to people who are lost, whose car |
| cell phone in class (you're disturbing us, too!)3. Talk | | | | is broken down or who need you to call their cell |
| about your mother when there are mothers | | | | phone so they can locate.10. Transfer your phone |
| around you.4. Talk about your kids when there | | | | book to your new phone - stop calling everybody |
| are kids around you.5. Talk and eat.6. Talk when | | | | every time you get a new phone because their |
| there is a home phone less than 1 foot away | | | | phone number is in the 'old' phone.Help your |
| from you.7. Talk on the bus at the top of your | | | | teenager practice good cell phone etiquette today |
| lungs (we all have to ride with you at least a few | | | | and make the world a better place!Sonya C. |
| more stops - have pity on us!)8. Talk to your old | | | | Triggs is a contributing author to Urban Christianz |
| boyfriend when your new boyfriend is around.9. | | | | Ministries. Visit this website to get more great |
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