When It's More Polite to Unplug

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Brenna Ehrlich
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When It's More Polite to Unplug
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The day when we will join our computers in sweet, sweet union, becoming unyielding cyborgs who, if we're lucky, will learn to be something more than a machine and will someday learn how to love (much like the chrome creatures in The Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots").

Well, until that day comes -- hey, it's on the horizon, there's already a dude out there with a webcam for an eye -- it seems as good a time as any to take stock of our Internet-tinged interpersonal relations.

Read on for four instances when it would be far wiser to unplug than to power up.

And so begins my Netiquette column -- which I write with my Stuff Hipsters Hate co-blogger, Andrea Bartz -- this week over at CNN.

Check out the column at CNN.com >>

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