Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome. Welcome to the podcast. If you haven't noticed recently we live in a world that is

saturated with

regards to our work and everywhere in between it seems as well

with regards to our commutes and our cars

and all the technology those vehicles provide

and so everywhere

everywhere we're just so used to those touch screens to the reminders to the

pings to the apps technology is everywhere and by no means is that a bad thing it's a very helpful and productive

thing but today we're going to talk about how to master your cell phone so I'm

starting a three-part series called Life and Tech and over the next couple of months

I'll be tackling a handful of topics not every week just three series three episodes

and today is the first part in that series so we're going to talk about how to master our cell phone

and really dive deep into the benefits of having the cell phone

and using it wisely.

The drawbacks, if we don't use it wisely and then if we are going to make sure we use it wisely how to do that so we're really going to dive into that and we'll also talk about 12 basic cell phone usage rules. I like to call them mobile manners, I guess you could say.

But we're just going to talk specifically about the cell phone or the smartphone today.

And we'll leave texting and social media and emailing to another

episode. All right so let's get started. I want to start by sharing a quote from a

book that was published in the 20th century but still holds a lot of relevancy to manners in today's society.

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