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The 'Mobile Phone Etiquette: the Dinner Date' Chart Offers Tips

— November 17, 2011 — Lifestyle
If you've had one of those awkward dining experiences where your paramour plays with his cellular device every precious second, you will absolutely relate to the 'Mobile Phone Etiquette: The Dinner Date' infographic.

The informative illustration by Michael Matthews and Jud Kennedy for The Mobile Culture delineates when, where and how to triumphantly use electronic attention to your amorous advantage. The chart begins with pre-date phone protocol, how to show courteous courtship behavior during the date, and what the social media steps for after the date entail to ensure a match made in heaven.

So before you blow your chances by premature Facebook friend requesting or publicly posting face-stuffing photos of your potential more-than-just-friend, the Mobile Phone Etiquette: The Dinner Date chart should be consulted and considered.
Trend Themes
1. Mobile Phone Etiquette - Opportunities exist in designing digital products that guide users in appropriate smartphone use during social scenarios.
2. Social Manner Guides - Creating educational content that teaches modern social graces, including phone and social media etiquette, can have commercial application.
3. Dating Etiquette Infographics - The production of graphics that visually communicate etiquette advice for modern romantic encounters could be a profitable market.
Industry Implications
1. Technology - Innovative software and hardware could be developed to provide helpful prompts regarding optimal phone use in social situations.
2. Education - Schools and educational institutions could produce and offer courses on modern social decorum and mobile etiquette.
3. Advertising and Marketing - Organizations and marketing companies could use mobile phone etiquette as a theme in their campaigns, creating awareness of good social manners among consumers.
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