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CELL PHONES ETIQUETTE AND SAFETY
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HISTORY Technology invented in 1947 1 st trial in 1977 in Chicago Big and too expensive for most of the public Started to become affordable in the mid to late 1990’s
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RANDOM FACTS The first cell phone cost nearly $4,000! The first cell phone weighed two pounds—literally a brick. Telephobia: an actual psychological term describing the fear of making or receiving calls Telephobia Cell phone users check their phones 150 times per day 58% of 12-year-olds have a cell phone.
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ISSUES WITH CELL PHONES Makes Cyberbullying More Painful Plays a Role in Grooming Sexting Made Easy Unintentional Sharing of Geolocation Data
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TIPS! anything you send from your phones can be easily forwarded and shared. never reveal cell phone numbers or passwords online consequences of sending sexually explicit or provocative images or text messages--- can be charged with distributing child pornography
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CELL PHONE MANNERS Be in control of your phone, don’t let it control you! Speak softly. Be courteous to those you are with; turn off your phone if it will be interrupting a conversation or activity. Watch your language, especially when others can overhear you
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CELL PHONE MANNERS CONTINUED Avoid talking about personal problems in a public place. If it must be on and it could bother others, use the silent ring mode and move away to talk Don’t make calls in a library, theater, church, or from your table in a restaurant. Don’t text during class or a meeting at your job. Private info can be forwarded, so don’t text it. NEVER drive and use your phone at the same time.
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SOURCES http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/chapter-three-a-week-in-the-life- analysis-of-smartphone-users/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/chapter-three-a-week-in-the-life- analysis-of-smartphone-users/ Netsmartz.org Common Sense Media
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