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In a Digital World, Do Your Manners Need a Makeover?

Henry Alford, author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners, offers his tips for restoring civility in the age of constant connectivity.
By Henry Alford
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Don't respond to a long, thoughtful e-mail merely with "Thx."

"Thx" will not make people look kindly on you—in their eyes you'll always be more Charlie Sheen than Tom Hx.

Next: How to solve your toughest Facebook dilemmas

From the September 2012 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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