On WhatsApp, your personal messages stay private, between you and whoever you sent them to.

So, things like your passport number for your honeymoon stay between you and your fiancé.

And those hour-long calls with mum stay between the two of you.

Even your streaming service password stays between you and your flatmates, who still ask for it every week in your group chat.

Because on WhatsApp, your personal messages are yours. No one else can see or hear them.

Not even us.

WhatsApp.

Message privately.

Maybe it's just that you don't know how to use social courtesy.

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

Watch how Lizzie Post and Dan Post Senate.

Act as host and hostess.

They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person. Real friendliness.

Hello.

And welcome to awesome etiquette.

Where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty.

On today's show, we take your questions on cutting food with a fork, a family member who is always trying to feed you, not wanting to participate

in the wedding bouquet toss, and responding to invitations to gatherings that provide no

information about COVID-19 safety measures. For awesome etiquette sustaining members, our question

of the week is about carefully choosing your friends on social media.

Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we compare

elements of etiquette from the 1922 edition, the first edition of etiquette, to our newest edition

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