Overview
About the event
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month can trace its beginnings back to 2002, when the day was founded by Jacqueline Whitmore, who is a manners expert from Palm Beach, Florida. In fact, just four years earlier, Whitmore had founded her own etiquette school and she was beginning to include some of the issues related to cell phone use in her curriculum.
Back in the early 2000s, mobile phones were just beginning to become a regular occurrence for people but, even up until the mid-late 1990s, they were often relegated to use inside of vehicles. But in the dawn of the new millennium, the number of cell phones appearing in public began to grow exponentially.
The problem was that folks had never really been taught etiquette of what was expected and how to use them courteously. Of course, this was during the time of talking, before texting really caught on and certainly before smart phones allowed for all sorts of other uses for the phone.
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month was established to help educate people on how to be aware of their surroundings and adjust their conversations with this in mind!
Back in the early 2000s, mobile phones were just beginning to become a regular occurrence for people but, even up until the mid-late 1990s, they were often relegated to use inside of vehicles. But in the dawn of the new millennium, the number of cell phones appearing in public began to grow exponentially.
The problem was that folks had never really been taught etiquette of what was expected and how to use them courteously. Of course, this was during the time of talking, before texting really caught on and certainly before smart phones allowed for all sorts of other uses for the phone.
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month was established to help educate people on how to be aware of their surroundings and adjust their conversations with this in mind!
