  Do you frequently check your phone or talk loudly? If yes you could be irritating others. These habits along with other bad mobile manners have been revealed by a Microsoft Safer Online Facebook study.
“People who constantly check their mobile phones to be the most annoying”, it said
Then there are people who use and don’t put their into silence mode when they are required to do so. The poll says that there no dearth of people who use phones during face-to-face conversation. You could also be one of those who delay traffic by using phones
Other mobile annoyances included accidentally pocket-dialing someone and simply losing their phones, opening the door to potential digital damage. Thirty-nine percent of respondents also agreed that they believe men and women equally practice mobile phone safety, but this may not be the reality.
“Although we’re all bothered by certain mobile phone behaviors, the more important point is knowing how to help protect one’s device and information from scammers, rogue software and the oversharing of digital details,” said Jacqueline Beauchere, chief online safety officer, Microsoft Corp. “We know from earlier research that men and women practice mobile safety very differently.”
So who does a better job protecting their personal information on mobile phones? According to the Microsoft Computing Safety Index (MCSI), men do a slightly better job using technical tools:
Thirty-five percent use a PIN or password to lock their mobile device compared with 33 percent of women.
Thirty-five percent use secured wireless networks versus 32 percent of women.
Thirty-two percent keep their mobile devices up to date contrasted with 24 percent of women.
Yet men seem to experience more mobile pitfalls, receiving more emails from strangers asking for personal information (70 percent versus 65 percent), more rogue antivirus popups (66 percent versus 58 percent), and more online impersonation experiences (31 percent versus 26 percent).
Women tend to be more protective of their online reputations, taking additional steps to limit personal information online (40 percent versus 37 percent) and what strangers can see on social networking sites (40 percent versus 32 percent), as well as being more selective about what they text (34 percent versus 31 percent).
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