It's No Longer Socially Acceptable To Make

For Email, The Old Postcard Rule Applies. Nobody Else Is Supposed To Read Your Postcards, But You'd Be A Fool If You Wrote Anything Private On One.

One Reason That The Task Of Inventing Manners Is So Difficult Is That Etiquette Is Folk Custom, And People Have Emotional Ties To The Forms Of Their Youth. That Is Why There Is Such Hostility Between Generations In Times Of Rapid Change; Their Manners Being Different, Each Feels Affronted By The Other, Taking Even The Most Surface Choices For Challenges.

Nowadays, You Form Your Beliefs To Fit Your Behavior, Not The Other Way Around.

Like Language, A Code Of Manners Can Be Used With More Or Less Skill, For Laudable Or For Evil Purposes, To Express A Great Variety Of Ideas And Emotions. In Itself, It Carries No Moral Value, But Ignorance In Use Of This Tool Is Not A Sign Of Virtue.

The Stress Of Making Small Talk With In-laws Is Called Being Part Of A Family.