If you're going out for a dinner date or your dad's boss is coming for dinner remember these simple tips.
1. Wait until everyone has been served before you start eating.
2. If you want something ask someone to pass it to you.  Don't reach across the table.
3. Don't talk with food in your mouth.
4. Eat with your mouth closed.
5. Keep your elbows by your side, not spread out like chicken wings or resting on the table.
6. Put your phone on silent and keep it in your bag.
7. If you put your cutlery down during the meal, put it in an upside down V so the waiter knows you're not done yet.
8. Put your knife and fork side by side facing 12:00 o'clock when you have finished eating.
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If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. This is true for all kinds of sharing - if you don't have anything nice to tweet or post then don't type anything at all.  Let's put good vibes out there.

Here's a list inspired by Pamela Eyring's article in The Sydney Morning Herald. I think we've all been guilty of breaking one or two (or all) of these social rules regarding mobile phones.  
1. Don't text or take calls when you're face-to-face with someone else (let voicemail do its job).
2. Don't yell or raise your voice - the whole train carriage does not want to know what you did on the    weekend.
3. Put your phone on silent in restaurants, movie theatres, concerts, the Library etc.
4. Don't make staff wait - at the checkout or a restaurant.
5. Don't use your phone while driving.
6. Watch your language.
7. Don't use your mobile phone in the toilet - gross!