By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

File this one under “Don’t Let Happen to You” because cell phone etiquette or celliquette as some are calling it (and should be shot – Alice) is starting to get way out of hand. First came the loud talker, then the annoying custom ringtones, and of course, the person who answers the phone every time it rings no matter what. (Does Paris Hilton ring a bell, so to speak) But one of the newest celliquette culprits is the Bluetooth headset, which many people say leave users wandering the street like scary Borgs talking to themselves.

When Reginald Davis, a sales manager in Washington, D.C., bought a wireless headset in November, his wife, Shan, thought it looked cool — until he started wearing it constantly. Her sister-in-law would ask her: “How can you stand it?” For months, Reginald says he had assumed his wife could tell from the lights on the earpiece whether he was on the phone, but Shan hadn’t noticed them. Unable to predict whether he would ignore her or respond, she got in the habit of forging ahead with whatever she needed to say. “I just keep going,” she says. “I know he can hear me. He just doesn’t answer me.” “The headset has become such a part of my everyday life that I didn’t recognize how much it is actually in my ear,” Reginald says. Source: Statesman.com via the Wall Street Journal

We say: forget about looking weird, doesn’t anyone care about having a giant electronic device so close to your brain? No thank you. Personally, as an “early adopter” I have always been hated for using a cell phone. First because few had them, then becuase I had ringtones before they caught on, and then for taking pics with my phone, then for talking on my Blackberry, so I am happy as can be to fall behind on this one.