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Why do people yell at their cell phones

Virtually everyone owns a cell phone these days, and the great benefits of cell phones come with responsibility, too. Certainly there is a proper and incorrect cell phone label, and unfortunately, the wrong cell phone label is still rampant among the general population.

A good example of bad cell phone etiquette is people yelling at their cell phones. Have you ever noticed how people speak much louder on cell phone than on normal phone? It is very common and can be extremely annoying to everyone around. Many people will excuse themselves and go to another room when they take a call, but there are times when they cannot leave. For example, when you are traveling in a car with someone, you may have to take a call and there is no “other room” that you can enter. It is at times like these that cell phone etiquette is of utmost importance.

So why do people with normal conversation volumes yell at their cell phones? Actually, it is a pretty simple explanation. Home or landline phones have a microphone on the receiver that amplifies your voice at the earpiece. When you speak to a landline, your voice is captured and played back through the earpiece, so you hear your own voice loud and clear. It is very similar to how a radio DJ wears headphones, then speaks into a microphone and hears his own voice in the headphones. With cell phones, your own voice is not amplified at the earpiece, so the only sound you hear is from your mouth. It sounds like this wouldn’t make a big difference, but the volume level of the words coming out of your mouth through the air and into your ear is a big difference from the sounds coming from a speakerphone that is pressed directly against your hearing.

Mobile phones are very common in society, but relatively speaking, they are still quite new. Unless you’re a teenager, you’ve probably grown up in a time when home phones were the norm and are therefore subconsciously trained to act as if each phone works like a home phone. So it’s no wonder that when most of us made the switch from landlines to cell phones, we kept many of our habits. We now hear our own much softer voice while talking on our cell phones, and the natural reaction is to talk.

It is important to avoid this tendency in situations where you are trying to be courteous. Remember, people want to hear you scream on a cell phone as much as you want to hear them scream on a cell phone. So keep in mind that while talking on the cell phone, you only have to use your usual voice, as if the person is next to you.

Perhaps one day cell phone companies will decide to incorporate the same voice amplification technologies into cell phones that were commonly used in landlines. But it probably won’t happen. Cell phones are here to stay, so we all need to adapt and start practicing proper cell phone etiquette.

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