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Muting chat groups, ignoring calls: The new rules of smartphone etiquette
The overload of digital communications means that people have to take steps to preserve their sanity.
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The writer says it increasingly seems that the way to handle an influx of communication is to opt out of actively responding.
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Karen Tee
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If the constant beeping of your smartphone from overactive WhatsApp group chats is driving you up the wall, this is just the beginning.
We are being deluged by all forms of digital communications. That is why smartphone etiquette and our own self-defence mechanisms to preserve our digital sanity have had to evolve.
