eEtiquette snippets:

10:1
Turn off your phone in airplanes, hospitals, and particle accelerators to avoid disrupting heavy-duty electronic equipment.
Here is a rule that I'm not sure why everyone does not follow.  It seems pretty clear that if just by turning your phone off, you can completely eliminate even that very slight chance of interfering with equipment that is responsible for keeping yourself and more importantly everyone around you alive, you should do it.  Still somehow people like to get away with not doing it because they think they know better.  I'm sure most people are guilty of this,  I definitely am and mostly because I remember reading that cellphones most likely do not interfere in any way with aircraft equipment, however, Is it really worth the risk?  I even overheard a passenger on my last flight talk to her friend about how she was still able to text her friend while mid-ascent and was going to try as we were beginning to descend for landing. What do we gain by getting away with that?  Bragging rights?

15:4
Start a video conference with warm chitchat. Set the conversation scene with a short 360º pan shot.
This particular rule I just found interesting just because it's something I wouldn't immediately think of (mostly because I rarely video conference) but it makes complete sense.  The warm chitchat I think is a given however the 360 pan shot is a great way to make the situation more comfortable.  By sharing each other's immediate environment, you create an understood mutual environment which will probably promote a more productive conversation.

24:4.
Flashing a mobile phone screen in a cinema can be louder than any ring tone.
This entry I'm particularly sensitive to as I see it at movies as well as theatre productions.  Last time I could remember was at a ballet in St. Petersburg which was totally irregular for me but unfortunately the only seats that were available were in a small box top row behind a small family.  Being that this was probably the only time I would experience anything like this, the fact that I had a 6" wide crevice between heads did not bother me... Of course, the two teenage girls in front of me were not at all interested and instead of watching they were actively texting and facebooking during the entire performance.   The mother did not say a word either.  Maria and I wanted to kill them.