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people have a love-hate relationship with cell phones we love using them but hate the way others use them I lived in New York City and people just walk and talk and you're like I'm trying to get to work people text and drive and they don't look at the road even at stop signs or stoplights cuz they're not paying attention at all when you try and talk to someone and they are looking out their phone the whole time a new Microsoft poll found that the top mobile usage pet peeves included checking phone's constantly talking loudly not silencing phones when appropriate using phones during face-to-face conversations and delaying traffic by using phones but some of our cellphone activities like pocket dialing losing our cellphones and sharing our locations are also jeopardizing our safety in today's day and age we keep just as much valuable personal information on the phone as we do on our home computer in some instances even more subtle so when you're not using a pin you're potentially losing your phone you could be opening yourself up to risk and what we call digital damage according to the study men are technically better at protecting their phones while women are more socially savvy at how they share their personal information men are better at using the pin the personal identification number or locking the phone with a password and women on the other hand are a little bit better at things like knowing what kind of information they're sharing online to limit the digital damage lock your phone limit sharing your location details and defend your phone against malware by updating apps in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News