![]() ![]() Some wish to take this to the extreme, like Nick Bilton of the New York Times, who has made a case against thank-you e-mails. Maybe this is why Facebook changed the option.” These are the cues that allow social media to function they ease the friction of undesired encounters. In one useful section, he points out the virtue in how Facebook allows you to reject someone’s request for friendship with the click of a “not now” button instead of the company’s original term, “ignore.” He writes, “In real life it can be impossible to ignore someone who is reaching out to you. The Internet helps foster communication, but, as Senning notes, it also elegantly can help with avoidance. “Save yourself some embarrassment (and maybe your job) and read the ‘How To’ guide first.” He also advises, “One person’s news is another person’s waste of time.” #GENTLE READER EMILY POST HOW TO#“It goes without saying that you need to know how to use a medium before you dive in,” he writes of Twitter. Mostly, Senning takes a read-the-room approach. This book will not reform the discourteous, but it may coach the naïve. Readers will encounter tips like “Need to know something or how to do something? The Google search is a new norm for finding out anything instantly,” and “Be sure to engage in the back-and-forth of the Twitter conversation.” Some will dismiss misguided instructions: “As a general rule, don’t open e-mails that don’t have a subject line.” And his earnest, perhaps clichéd, suggestions for commenters-“leave the flame-thrower at home,” “know your own hot buttons,” and “never insult or question someone’s intelligence or integrity”-are endearingly reasonable but misunderstand the ruthlessness of trolls. ![]() Senning begins his book by promising that he writes “for technophiles and technophobes alike.” But it’s the latter who stand to gain the most from the manual, if they think to pick it up at all. ![]()
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