万花筒 2011-02-28&03-03 你讲究手机礼仪吗？

 I always sort of thought it was me when I am walking down the sidewalk, or I am at a theater or in a restaurant, or standing¹ in line, and I see people talking on their phone more. I thought maybe I was just being more observant. But the reality is it is happening more people are getting more and more mad about it, right?

 

Yes, I think so.

 

Yeah, I mean the day is really mixed though. It's fascinating if you look at the way people’s attitudes have changed over the last 3 to 5 years for instance. You know a place like this. Three years ago, it would have annoyed you a whole lot more that people were talking on phones around you in movies and in restaurants, and would kind of make some peace without it. The devices have just got more ubiquitous. But you are absolutely right. You notice it in others. But I bet you do it too. 

 

I do it all the time. You are right. So what is it? What's the most fascinating thing that came from this data? 

 

Ninety-two percent of people want others to have better mobile etiquette². That 92% isn't some unknown other. It's actually all of us. So we need to kind of hold ourselves to our own standards. 

 

So there is a guy right there on his Blackberry.

 

You know that's quite interesting thing. You know technology itself isn’t actually rude or polite. It's how we use it. So if you are not actually bothering the people around you, you’re probably ok. But if you are, then it's time to think twice. 

 

Be he, you know, he was on his Blackberry, checking his E-mail over there, typing a way, not being observant of where he is going or who is in his path. 

 

But also there is a difference situation between good manners and common sense, right? (Yes.) I think you absolutely want to say there are things you shouldn't do because they are dangerous, (yeah) they are foolish, they are unhealthy, they are unhygienic.(right) as opposed to, there are things that you do that upset other people, that make other people uncomfortable, that create a kind of discord³ and disharmony which is always in your particular kind of..

 

Very much so, although I think unhygienic marries with etiquette when it comes to people using mobile devices in public bathrooms. (In the bathroom, yeah!) And I’ll say, you know, public bathrooms are not let just go with NO across the board, I am using the bathroom, please.

 

So what does your data find? How many people are using these things in public restroom?

 

Forty-eight percent which still is a little gross⁴, I think. 

 

As much as these issues about changing ideas about good manners, changing ideas about etiquette. On the gross, you are just trying to work out with these things that are gonna fit in our lives. When It's really easy to think it's being around forever, but frankly⁵ you know smart phones like that are less than 3-5 years old for most of the regular consumers, and I think it's still sort of working out what's right and what's wrong with them. 

 

I am sorry. I was only half listening, I’m just checking my email... Haha, I am kidding. So overall, what's the finding? It's just that we as you said, we are all doing it. And we have grown more used to others doing it. And I guess we sort of found a way that cope with?

 

I think there’s a couple of things. I know Anna will get to sort a different list. For me the list, I’m gonna confiscate⁶ that Community Seconds. For me, I think the list is these are things that are in flux⁷, right? You know how we think about our relationship to technology, what we use it for work fits in our lives. Those are rules that we are still mapping. And it's gonna take us a little while before they are  kind of, settle it out. 

 

Absolutely, because the bottom line is that this technology is allowing you to connect with people, people that you do business with, people that you care about. In that side, I think it's fantastic. That 92% of Americans who wish that people use better etiquette with their mobile devices. That to me says that yes we are seeing it, but we also care about continuing to shift it to something better. 

 

There’s always been space between the things we say, we do and the things we are actually doing. In the studies for me firmly in that area. We are upset that other people do it. But clearly that is what we are doing ourselves too, so  playing that out is always fascinating.

 

It's a fascinating stuff and certainly it's gonna change the way I use my phone. And I promise I am not going to use this in the public bathroom. 

1 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

2 etiquette   

n.礼仪，礼节；规矩

参考例句：

• The rules of etiquette are not so strict nowadays.如今的礼仪规则已不那么严格了。
• According to etiquette,you should stand up to meet a guest.按照礼节你应该站起来接待客人。

3 discord   

n.不和，意见不合，争论，（音乐）不和谐

参考例句：

• These two answers are in discord.这两个答案不一样。
• The discord of his music was hard on the ear.他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳。

4 gross   

adj.全部的，粗俗的，肥胖的；vt.获得...总收入

参考例句：

• The gross weight of the box of chocolates is 500 grams.那盒巧克力的全部重量是500克。
• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。

5 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

6 confiscate   

v.没收(私人财产)，把…充公

参考例句：

• The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.如发现违禁货物，警方有权查扣。
• Did the teacher confiscate your toy?老师没收你的玩具了吗？

7 flux   

n.流动；不断的改变

参考例句：

• The market is in a constant state of flux.市场行情在不断变化。
• In most reactors,there is a significant flux of fast neutrons.在大部分反应堆中都有一定强度的快中子流。