Answer the following questions about appropriately responding to digital messages:

A. What do you think is an appropriate response time to the following types of digital messages: texts, microblog messages

(such as tweets), and emails?

B. Have others ever found your response time surprisingly fast?

Have others ever found your response time to be slow enough to be considered impolite or uncivil? How can you influence the expectations of others regarding how quickly you respond to their digital messages?

C. Explain cyber silence. Provide three examples that you have observed.

D. What is the best way to respond to cyber silence when you need a response from someone else?

E. What three strategies do you or will you use in the upcoming five years to avoid e-interruptions in the workplace?