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On Facebook and the Death of Etiquette

Adam Cohen

Email between friends and family has a broad range of what’s “socially acceptable,&# but over time people at least develop a sense of when people will reply and why. Two years ago, no way I’d tell you that it would be acceptable to converse via text message/SMS with grandparents. Same with instant messaging.

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On Facebook and the Death of Etiquette

Adam Cohen

Email between friends and family has a broad range of what’s “socially acceptable,” but over time people at least develop a sense of when people will reply and why. Two years ago, no way I’d tell you that it would be acceptable to converse via text message/SMS with grandparents.

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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Instant messaging lets us detect whether our friends are busy without our bugging them, and texting lets us ping one another asynchronously. Photo Credit: Mute by woodlywonderworks on Flickr. And when we had our little earthquake here a few years back, phone did not work tho SMS did! It could take days to get a response.

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