If you are upset about any of the intrusions or violations brought on by smartphones, social media, and the Internet in general, then this paperback by Anne Katherine, a therapist, is tailor-made for you. The author wrote the first simple book on boundaries — Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin.

Here are a few things you may be concerned about:

• constant deluge of junk email
• time-devouring social media friends
• collection of your private information
• predators in chat rooms
• smartphone users who violate your space with their noise
• sabotage of face-to-face encounters by smartphone users
• spying on the Internet via cookies, spyware, and adware

We have become a society that is connected 24/7, and many of us looking for more ways to set boundaries to protect ourselves from diversions, trivial talk, and other ways we are being swamped by data.

Therapist Katherine offers good tips and guidelines for diagnosing and setting appropriate boundaries and protecting your privacy. There are also spiritual practices you can put into place that are designed to bolster solitude and silence which are in short supply in this era of connectivity.