How to avoid being a jerk while wearing the new Apple Watch

The new Apple Watch will begin popping up on wrists this month. You might even be getting one yourself. If you are, keep one thing in mind: If you’re not careful, it could turn you into a jerk.

Apple wants the watch to make you more present and to free you from the supposed tyranny of your iPhone, but what the watch does is bring another screen into your life — with all the associated tapping, beeping and peek-sneaking.

Here are a few crucial dos and don’ts to keep you from

being that guy: Do: Curate your notifications. If you turn everything on, you’ll quickly find yourself overwhelmed and worse off than you were prewatch. Prioritize your notifications and have only the most important ones go to the

watch. Don’t: Stare too long. Checking your wrist is the original impolite gesture. It says: “I have somewhere else to be and I’m telling you to wrap it up.” A quick glance most of us can forgive, but if the info you need from your Apple Watch isn’t immediately discernible, lower your wrist and either finish what you’re doing or politely excuse yourself to handle the alert. Don’t: Whine about it. If you get your hands on an Apple Watch, the last thing your friends hear is how find it. will want to annoying you Do: Use common sense. It shouldn’t be that hard, right? There are situations where it should just feel wrong to be using your Apple Watch, like a dark theater.