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Net Smart is a book for an era where we’ve moved past just creating online identities and communities, but still have to educate ourselves on how to operate in day-to-day life. Rheingold said he believes a better understanding and deeper use of things like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are “essential survival skills” that will last beyond today or the lifespan of those individual companies.

Rheingold sees as important: attention, participation, collaboration, “crap detection,” and network smarts.

a world renowned expert on the English language tackling the myths (as he sees it) of texting and Twitter corrupting the language and leading to a generation that cannot spell and finds it hard to express themselves in more than a few clipped sentences.