Oct 30, 2010

Reporter's phone-manners ruse tests tolerance

Risks from texting or talk to your mobile phone while driving are obvious. But what about when you are using just your device technology in everyday life? "Early Show" special fellow Taryn Winter flounder conducted an experiment social etiquette technology to learn just how long will it take to test people's patience.

Brill says each year, Americans spend more than 2 trillion minutes for mobile phones and send text messages over one trillion. chat constant in public places can be annoying, so we designed our own social experiment very hidden camera to learn how people react when they're face-to-face with rude behavior.

Brill began a quiet commuter train, talking aloud phone. it took less than a minute man in front of reacting.

I said ...No. ..TALK!(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

The man said, "do you want to take your conversation in the corridor? is not very polite."

And what about those irritating chirping sounds when you're busy texting or IM your friends ' ing? A woman suffered in silence for three minutes ago said Finally, "Audio travelled right ears I could download the little?"

Next flounder went a supermarket and held until a row with the phone conversation.

A man of items picked up and moved to another fund; The woman behind him took action and said, "Sorry, you hold our entire line up here!"

Then, witch was interrupted by a coffee shop and let the phone ringing switch.

Brill more kept their cool, but one guy said he decided to speak, asking, "you might place on vibrate at?"

Finally flounder went to a movie theatre, the most sacred of hideaways entertainment.

The audience enough understanding during previews, but during the movie, you just found Brill to push a person far. after repeated ringing, a woman named which Brill, saying, "turn off your phone f *** *** or I will kick you."

So what you can do if you see poor etiquette? should talk; Michael Grynbaum, a journalist with the New York Times spoke of "fast" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez about people things to do and your "fast reply" Facebook and Twitter questions relating to the broadcast.

This article originally appeared on cbsnews.com.


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