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People in the News

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

People in the News

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Etiquette poll: Put away your phone and don’t break up with me via Facebook

facebook breakup relationshipsThe results from the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll are in-and the theme is etiquette.

One: e-mailing and texting during meals is the social practice most Americans find most annoying, and more than half of us would like to see it stop. Nothing else comes close. Is that not encouraging-a reason to be cheerful?

Two: more than half of us think a Facebook post is the worst way to break up with someone. (And that was against some tough competition, like sticky notes and e-mails.) Let’s commend ourselves for our disapproval.

Three: a combined three-fourths of us give the gimlet eye to waiters who ask us, while we’re chewing, how our meal is going, or want to know whether we’re “still working on that?”

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