How to Behave: New rules for highly evolved humans WIRED magazine
Balance your media diet
Texting in the company of others is OK
Choose the right ringtone
Know what makes a good viral video
Case Study on modern British woman and lifestyles, which focuses on day to day realities of mums' lives today: The results revealed that more than three quarters (76%) of parents encourage, or did encourage their children while living at home, to write thank you letters for gifts received following a special occasion such as a birthday or at Christmas.
'Public rage' in India: Just like road rage, poor mobile etiquette has ceated 9 new forms of public rage against talking in theatres, loud disturbing ringtones, divided attention over BBM, etc.
One way of teaching manners in India is by issuing 'challans', done by the Traffic police for mobile related offences.
Personally I think that in India, the only way of teaching etiquette is by scaring them into submission or by punishing them for the offence. For example, the only reason why Indians switch off their cellphones on a plane is because they're scare it will crash if they don't.
Four steps for beating your smartphone addiction: What started off as a useful tool somehow has taken over your attention and usurped hours of your workday Checking your phone about every 5-10 minutes means you’re looking at it more than 50 times a day. Granted, checking for new messages doesn’t feel like it takes up all that much time, but the cumulative effect clearly is profound. What’s worse, the constant distraction of checking your phone in all likelihood makes you less efficient and less productive.
Email Charter: We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. An email inbox has been aptly described as the to-do list that anyone in the world can add an item to.
Polite interview with Miss Manners: In real life, Miss Manners's true name is Judith Martin. For years she's written about excruciatingly correct behavior for all those moments when the modem is not on; now she has a few interesting things to say about the wired life. For example, people who don't give a hoot about sending thank-you notes are suddenly bent out of shape when they get an email message typed in ALL CAPS. Wired spoke to Miss Manners and asked her, very politely, how etiquette is bringing civility to the online frontier.
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