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CNN.com TECHNOLOGY Where are your wireless manners?

Here are some of my favorite parts:

Honore Ervin, co-author of "The Etiquette Grrls: Things You Need to Be Told." "Just because it's there at your disposal, doesn't mean you have to use it 24/7."

(Yes, one I am guilty of... but sometimes I just HAVE to tell someone I love something!)

The worst habit? Loud phone conversations in public places, or "cell yell," according to 72 percent of the Americans polled.

(I love my Mom & Dad, but I seriously hold the phone away from my face when talking to them. I know I'm worried about going deaf, I can only imagine what the people around them are thinking)

Ervin said. "At the movies -- turn off your cell phone. I don't want to pay $10 to be sitting next to some guy chitchatting to his girlfriend on his cell phone."

(AND, for that matter, in lectures people, honestly! I have yet to be that girl and I don't think that I'm immune to it, but if it gets to the point where I can't handle the responsibility I'll leave my phone at home GOD SAVE ME)

She also cites the growing complaints by her readers and friends of cell phone use at events such as church services, funerals or school graduations, "and that's just wrong," she said.

This rudeness has deteriorated public spaces, according to Lew Friedland, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He calls the lack of manners a kind of unconscious rudeness, as many people are not aware of what they're doing or the others around them.

-- That is SO true. It's not that I thought (prior to having a cell phone) that cell phone people were jerks. I was simply baffled that they didn't realize when/where/how it was appropriate to use their cell phones. As a frequent user now, I have a better understanding of the appeal of using your cell phone anytime you want to, nonetheless, I'm still trying to have some perspective about what might be considered inconvenient, annoying, or just plain rude.