Smartphones are a relatively new technology. But older people still have old-school ideas about when it's polite, or impolite, to use smartphones.
We had Survey Monkey conduct a nationwide survey of people to see how and when people are using their smartphones. We have gathered the results here, focusing on people aged 45-60.
We previously published the results for people 18-29 years old. The results from the 45-60 group follow, and you can see that they have a much more traditional notion of when it's appropriate to use a phone.
For instance, that old piece of etiquette from the days of the hard-wired phone — that it's impolite to call when someone's likely to be eating dinner — is still a current standard for middle-aged people, even though young people just don't care.
It's slightly acceptable to answer a phone call at dinner, but you probably shouldn't do it at all.
Business calls are a little bit better, but are still only "slightly" acceptable.
Facebook, though, is a different story altogether. Don't even think about checking it.
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