Cell Phone Manners

This is not a topic I think about often but when I do I usually end up questioning the nerve of many people. I'll start this post with the 5 rules I have come up with:
1. If you are alone with someone do not make a call unless you ask for permission first. I think it is acceptable to text but no calls. If someone is calling you ask the person you are with if they mind if you answer your call. It can be really awkward to be the person just sitting there while you have no idea who your friend is talking to. Thank goodness not many people I know do this.
2. You're at a party/event at someone else's home and you seclude yourself from the evenings events in order to use the phone all night... This is extremely rude and it makes everyone else think you are not enjoying yourself and would like to be elsewhere.
3. There should be no cell phone use during church, dinner or a movie. Big nono. During times like these your phone should be off or on silent. You can talk to your friends/family later, now is not the time. This is very inappropriate.
4. Using your phone while driving. This can affect multiple parties. If you are in the car with others are you being rude to them by a. ignoring them b. putting them in danger because you are not paying full attention to the road. You are also putting everyone else that you are driving around in danger.
5. During meetings, for school clubs or for work or during class. It is rude but it will only hurt you in the long run because people with look at your negatively and won't take you seriously.

Since cell phones are such a huge part of our life it is easy to forget rules like these because we take our phones for granted and we over use them even when we do not have to. It happens everyone once in a while but you can tell who is oblivious to common courtesy of cell phone use.

I know for a fact that I would complain everyday if I got my cell phone taken away from me. I feel like I wouldn't be able to live without it and I know many people, young and old, feel the same way as I do. Also, I think that cell phones may be another reason teenagers get such a bad reputation. Older people feel like we are always on them and they more likely to notice a lack of manners when people are using cell phones. I'm sure that more older people than young notice things such as cell phone edict. But they do not understand how addicting they can be. I have been growing up in a generation where everyone is constantly connected via phones, internet and so on and it would be extremely difficult for me to give up these connections. I love being able to talk to my friends and family whenever I feel like it. And of course they are handy in emergencies!

Colossal University

For all of you that are yet to blog on this topic, I'll try and make this a little easier. I noticed some people have a blogged about Colossal U but they do not even fully understand the advertisements. I have a feeling most people who did so did not take the chance to visit the website provided. What I am about to tell you you may have already known, or you may not. I am doing this for those who did not know (and because well that is kind of the point of this blog, and I really want Unit 6 to be completed..): Colossal U is not real.

It took me a while to figure this out... I read some blogs making fun of the university saying no one is going to go there and those blogs confused me because I was pretty sure it was not real. I also read some great blogs that had a good grasp on what Colossal U was really advertising: Algoma University. Algoma U is the exact opposite of what Colossal U is advertising. They use those confusing advertisements for Colossal U to attract the attention to themselves. These ads will easily confuse most people and they will be interested to get to the real message behind those ads. In a society such as this it is very rare for people to reject the idea of individualism. Most post-secondary schools encourage and advertise variety at their school. Colossal U is a way of showing you how things should not be and that Algoma U guarantees they are not going to let all students turn out the same.

Algoma U takes a unique approach to advertise their school, it is very interesting but could be bad for them. I'm not sure whether most people are curious enough to get to the bottom of the mysterious Colossal U ads, many people these days are extremely lazy. Obviously Ms. Arturi isn't! :) Yaaay. But anyways, I'm sure they would not use the those advertisements for a long time if they were not working. This is an interesting concept and I hope it works for them.