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• Their apparent goal: to help members of Generation Y navigate thorny, tech-age minefields like Paperless Post invites, same-sex weddings and online dating — not to mention actual face-to-face contact with people they encounter in the offline world.
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• No arena of modern life, it seems, is too obscure or ridiculous for consideration.
• But perhaps the fastest-growing area of social advice — one that has spawned not just videos but also Web sites, blogs and books — is the Internet itself, and the proper displays of what’s been termed “netiquette.”
• Steven Petrow, an author of five etiquette books including “Mind Your Digital Manners: Advice for an Age Without Rules,”
• (Mr. Petrow is a regular contributor to The New York Times, writing an advice column on gay-straight issues for the Booming blog.)
• “etiquette gurus are popping out from under tablecloths everywhere to soothe all those living in fear of newfangled faux pas.”
• “Many of these emerging etiquette issues are complicated because there are no clear-cut, black-and-white answers,”
• A recent post on Dot Complicated dealt with how to respond to a request for money, something that Ms. Zuckerberg, C.E.O. of Zuckerberg Media, said she has had to deal with quite frequently. (Her advice: “Say no and say it quickly.”)
• Young people “are getting sick of the irony, rudeness and snark that is so prevalent in their online lives,”
• “The return of etiquette is in part a response to the harshness of the interactions they are having in the digital sphere.”

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• Alex Williams wrote a piece for the Times called "The End of Courtship?"

• as cited by The New York Times,
• Mind Your Digital Manners: Navigating Life in an Age Without Rules.

• Daniel Post Senning is the great-great-grandson of Emily Post
• Dan specializes in tech and social media etiquette and is gearing up for the release of his new e-book Manners in a Digital World - Living Well Online in April, 2013.
• He co-teaches the Emily Post Institute Children's Etiquette Train The Trainer program with his mother Cindy Post Senning.

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• April 16, 2013

• Etiquette, Manners,
• • Proof of existence and credentials. 
• Ms. Starr is Private Counsel to Members of the Royal Family in the Middle and Far East and dignitaries and executives around the world.
• . Ms. Starr is the preferred training partner for the United States Pentagon for her Modern Day Finishing School. 
• Lady Gloria Starr offers you the opportunity to acquire the polish, poise, social graces and professional presence of an elegant, beautiful, timeless lady.

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• editor-in-chief of an alternative teen magazine in the 80s and 90s called "Sassy".
• Attended North Carolina School of the Arts and Philips Academy Andover (Massachussetts) on scholarships and financial aid while her family was on welfare. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1984 with a double major in Dance and Communications.

• founding editor of Sassy and Jane,
• (born November 11, 1962