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Why is it that a lot of intelligent, well-meaning individuals act like complete savages when it comes to their use of digital technology? People shout on their cell phones in otherwise quiet places, text during worship or in meetings, send emails that could be considered SPAM, and post profanity laced rants on social media websites for the world to see. In many ways, it's not their fault. No one has ever laid down the ground rules of digital engagement. That is, until now. Chatbox Manners: The Field Guide to Digital Etiquette is the synthesis of traditional etiquette practices and our need to use modern-day communications tools. In this book Digital Lifestyle Expert Clarence Reynolds advocates common sense rules of interactive civility, and offer new ways look critically at the digital tools that have pushed us toward behaviors beyond the horizon of good manners and courtesy. Chatbox Manners introduces New Rules for Digital Engagement for cell phone use, texting, webcam communications, social media posts, email and more. People are losing jobs, getting evicted, being arrested or losing credibility because of what they enter into the chatbox, or open field where written text is put to communicate with others on social media sites. Others are losing friends, acquaintances and even marriages because of how they wield the other chatbox, their cell phone. Chatbox Manners addresses the need for a digital manners protocol that provides guardrails for interaction in this increasingly connected and transparent world of communication.

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