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"   Today celebrates 40 years of the trusty mobile phone. From humungous comedy-style 80s car-phones, to playing &amp;#039;Snake&amp;#039; on our Nokia 8210s, it&amp;#039;s been an emotional journey for many of us mobile-phone-addicts. Here, Cosmo staffers share the lessons we&amp;#039;ve learned over the years.... 1) Always plug your headphones in &amp;quot;I once travelled three stops on the tube without realising my headphones weren&amp;#039;t plugged in. I thought my music sounded a bit quiet and muffled, so I kept clicking the volume button to make it louder, unaware that my headphones weren&amp;#039;t in properly and that my phone was blasting out Ice Cube&amp;#039;s It Was a Good Day on speakerphone to the entire carriage. I wanted the ground to swallow me.&amp;quot;Sophie Goddard, Junior Features Writer.  2) Don&amp;#039;t trust autocorrect &amp;quot;My mum text me yesterday saying &amp;#039;happy birthday korma&amp;#039; (my name&amp;#039;s Lorna). I&amp;#039;m constantly writing things I shouldn&amp;#039;t on my iPhone, it always pays to re-read your messages before sending, trust me.&amp;quot;Lorna Gray, Features Writer DATING ON A BUDGET 3) Don&amp;#039;t leave your phone on the bed while having sex &amp;quot;I learned the hard way and my parents got a major surprise! Awkward.&amp;quot;Jo Adnitt, Acting Features Director 4) Check your phone before bitching &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;re having a moan, your mobile phone will spontaneously ring whoever you&amp;#039;re complaining about in your pocket. Seriously! It&amp;#039;s happened to me and it was awful. If you really need a slagging sesh, take the battery out. It&amp;#039;s always better to be safe than sorry!&amp;quot;Harriet Stigner, Editor&amp;#039;s PA 5) Drunk texting never ends well &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ll ever learn not to drunk text. My iPhone has ruined my life countless times while I&amp;#039;ve been drunk, I even had to download AND PAY FOR an app that puts my phone in &amp;#039;lockdown&amp;#039; for 24 hour. It stops me from texting certain numbers/people stored in my phonebook.&amp;quot;Lucy Partington, Beauty Intern 6) Sometimes old phones are best &amp;quot;Even though I&amp;#039;m now in a committed relationship with my flashy iPhone, I know that you simply canNOT beat a good ol&amp;#039; chunky Nokia handset for sturdiness and longevity. I know this after having a row with my boyfriend at home some years back. I launched my Nokia of fridge-like proportions across the room in a massive diva strop. It bounced off the arm of the sofa and INTO THE FISH TANK - and survived! The handset lasted longer than the relationship... On a similar note, if you get your iPhone wet, you&amp;#039;re meant to incubate it in a sealed plastic bag full of silica gel packets (yup, the ones you always throw away when you get a new bag) for 24-48 hours. AND PRAY. A bag of rice works too.&amp;quot;Natalie Wall, Online Fashion Editor THE SEXY GOSLING GALLERY 7) There&amp;#039;s a time and a place for your mobile &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t get me wrong, I absolutely love my iPhone, but there&amp;#039;s a time to text/Instagram/update your Facebook status and there&amp;#039;s a time to put it away. My friends and I have a strict &amp;#039;no phones at dinner&amp;#039; policy \u2013 there&amp;#039;s nothing more distracting or annoying than somebody clicking away on their phone when you&amp;#039;re trying to talk to them.&amp;quot;Collette Naden, Cosmo on Campus Web Assistant 8) Take care naming everybody in your contacts list &amp;quot;My ex and this new guy I was seeing had the same name. One day, I was hanging out with my housemates in our flat and left my phone on the sofa while I went outside. Sure enough, my phone started ringing and my friend picked it up, thinking it was my ex. They spoke for about five minutes \u2013 with her not realising who it was \u2013 and when I got back, I immediately realised what was happening. It was super, super awkward. Moral of the story? Make sure everyone in your phonebook is named clearly and never let your friends answer your phone.&amp;quot;Becky Fletcher, Features Intern 9) Sleep texting is bad &amp;quot;I keep my phone by my bed and I&amp;#039;ve lost track of the number of times I&amp;#039;ve woken up to find text conversations on my phone I have absolutely no knowledge of. The same goes for phone calls \u2013 if it rings by my bed I&amp;#039;ll answer it, even if I&amp;#039;m semi-comatose, insisting I&amp;#039;m &amp;quot;awake&amp;quot;. Better to put it on silent and keep it faaaar away from you, honestly.&amp;quot;Holly Coopey, Fashion Assistant 10) Choose ringtones with longevity &amp;quot;It might seem like a funny idea to temporarily change your ringtone to &amp;#039;Wannabe&amp;#039; by The Spice Girls (in a strictly ironic way) when you&amp;#039;re down the pub with your mates after a bottle of wine. But the next morning when your phone is ringing in your pocket on the bus to work and you can&amp;#039;t reach it? Not so much.&amp;quot;Kat Moore, Features Work Experience CELEBS AND THEIR CUTE PETS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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