An overview on Mobile Etiquette in the US

Do you know what Blackberry-orphans are? This research is more about ignored parents and teachers while their kids are texting away. Because new findings about behavior involving mobile devices confirm what frustrated parents, supervisors and teachers already believed: Many Americans said that using a cellphone — or even its presence — during a meal, a meeting or in the classroom is not appropriate.

Yet those beliefs can vary dramatically by age or the type of technology that respondents use, according to a national survey conducted by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future in collaboration with the market research and strategy firm Bovitz Inc. You can explore the results of this survey in this infographic, read more about the survey here.

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