Close your eyes. Imagine yourself in a restaurant, having dinner with your partner then all of a sudden a loud ringtone rings and by chance it happened to be your date. Unfortuantely, they had to answer the phone. The sat there for several minutes totall ignoring your presence how they are still in a date. How would you feel?

In this scenario, politeness and manners should have been applied in the following situations:

- Loud phone ringtone
- Answering the phone
- Sitting there and talking
- Not saying "sorry" or "excuse me"
- Ignoring the person

The total opposite should have happened
-Phone is not set on a loud ringtone (Vibrate or silent is recommended)
-Should not have answered the phone for it is rude
-OR could answer the phone but ask to be excuse and say sorry.
-Recognize the person is still there waiting for you
-Get up and walk out for a while.

As the phone gradually cling onto our lives and become part of our dail lives, we seem to forget our manners needs to be applied even through technological communication. Our manners is gradually disappearing from our actions and even through our mouths. As human being we should still maintain presenting our manners to other people whether in reality or virtually. We should remain respectful, kind, and polite at all times.

Phones are great but not until you have offeded someone without knowing. Manners shoul be applied when talking through the phone because we are still talking to human beings and not animals. We should be considerate of the people around us and prevent from offending them. People use phones during inappropriate times because they think that because they are not talking in person manners should not be applied. It is easier to talk to a person in reality with manners because ou are aware of what he will think of you. However, it is harder to talk to a person throught the phone because you are not presently with them.

Along with everthing, phones should come with standard rules to show manners. These rules have been touched on earlier.

1. Respect the people around you when you are talking on the phone - talking on the phone does not mean you can be loud or obnoxious. People are around you and they will be bothered by you talking on the phone. Whisper through the phone, act inconspicously, say 'excuse me' or 'sorry' to the people around you.

2. Don't talk while driving - this is very important it is both a safety issue and a polite act. Talking on the phone while driving is a recipe for disaster, people cannot do two things at the same time. One must be focus at driving because it concerns more people around them. If an accident occurs and the driver was talking on the phone he or she would be blamed on.

3. When talking on the phone around a group of people kindly leave - it seems rude when you are around a group of people engaging in a conversation when suddenly someone is talking on the phone at the same time with the group. Say 'excuse me'.

4. Don't talk on the phone during inappropriate places (ie. Church, Hospitals) - it is inappropriate to talk on the phone in these areas for it is disrespecting the comfort of other people.

5. Use proper language when talking on the phone - do not use inappropriate language or derogator terms.

In conclusion, we should all come to realize that even when we are talking on the phone we still need to show manners.