Per Square Mile. Housing. New Stories From 'Urban Agriculture Notes'. Oobject - Daily User Ranked Lists. Thought Catalog. Help Slate set some ground rules for cell phone etiquette. - By Farhad Manjoo. Imagine you've just sat down to dinner with your spouse.
Let's say it's a weeknight and there's nothing particularly special about this meal—you're at your own dining room table, neither one of you has slaved in the kitchen all day, and you don't have anything especially important to discuss. Halfway through dinner, your phone buzzes with a text message. Do you reach for it? And if so, do you reply? I'm asking because I got into an argument over this scenario on Twitter last week.