October 23rd, 2008

Lesson: Your Private Conversations Ain’t So Private

Big Mouth? Don’t be that guy (courtesy Hamed Saber on Flickr CC).jpgby Sheila Scarborough

I don’t personally agree with his methodology, but I must admit I was morbidly fascinated by the results….

PR guy Peter Shankman was riding the train to some business-related destination when another man sat across from him, pulled out a cell phone and said “Apologies in advance, I talk a lot.”

Insert grimace here, right? Immediately don iPod/noise-cancelling headphones, and rue the advent of technology, right?

Shankman went further.

He could hear from the man’s constant…

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