parul
January 21st, 2003, 10:12 AM
NET ETIQUETTES:
1)Remember the human:When you communicate electronically, all you see is a computer screen. You don't have the opportunity to use facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to communicate your meaning; words -- lonely written words -- are all you've got. And that goes for your correspondent as well. When you're holding a conversation online -- whether it's an email exchange or a response to a discussion group posting -- it's easy to misinterpret your correspondent's meaning. And it's frighteningly easy to forget that your correspondent is a person with feelings more or less like your own.
2)Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.
3)Know where you are in cyberspace:What's perfectly acceptable in one area may be dreadfully rude in another( Specially while using slang)
4)Respect other people's time and bandwidth:Try to be precise and nonrepititive.
5)Share expert knowledge:The strength of cyberspace is in its numbers. The reason asking questions online works is that a lot of knowledgeable people are reading the questions. And if even a few of them offer intelligent answers, the sum total of world knowledge increases. The Internet itself was founded and grew because scientists wanted to share information. Gradually, the rest of us got in on the act.So do your part. Don't be afraid to share what you know.
6)Help keep flame wars under control:series of angry letters, most of them from two or three people directed toward each other, that can dominate the tone and destroy the camaraderie of a discussion group. It's unfair to the other members of the group.
7)Respect other peoples' privacy.
8)Capitals:You should NOT use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in a normal message. Caps are used to show emphasis only for one or two words and entire sentences in all caps is regarded as YELLING! (very rude)
9)Stay on topic.
10)Language:(it does tend to happen that you
try to get your point across in a foreign language and it turns out to sound
ruder even though you dont know it),choose your words carefully.
1)Remember the human:When you communicate electronically, all you see is a computer screen. You don't have the opportunity to use facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to communicate your meaning; words -- lonely written words -- are all you've got. And that goes for your correspondent as well. When you're holding a conversation online -- whether it's an email exchange or a response to a discussion group posting -- it's easy to misinterpret your correspondent's meaning. And it's frighteningly easy to forget that your correspondent is a person with feelings more or less like your own.
2)Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.
3)Know where you are in cyberspace:What's perfectly acceptable in one area may be dreadfully rude in another( Specially while using slang)
4)Respect other people's time and bandwidth:Try to be precise and nonrepititive.
5)Share expert knowledge:The strength of cyberspace is in its numbers. The reason asking questions online works is that a lot of knowledgeable people are reading the questions. And if even a few of them offer intelligent answers, the sum total of world knowledge increases. The Internet itself was founded and grew because scientists wanted to share information. Gradually, the rest of us got in on the act.So do your part. Don't be afraid to share what you know.
6)Help keep flame wars under control:series of angry letters, most of them from two or three people directed toward each other, that can dominate the tone and destroy the camaraderie of a discussion group. It's unfair to the other members of the group.
7)Respect other peoples' privacy.
8)Capitals:You should NOT use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in a normal message. Caps are used to show emphasis only for one or two words and entire sentences in all caps is regarded as YELLING! (very rude)
9)Stay on topic.
10)Language:(it does tend to happen that you
try to get your point across in a foreign language and it turns out to sound
ruder even though you dont know it),choose your words carefully.