Netiquette

Hello guys! I'm interesting in this book how we how to use social media is good and right. From 10 points, I choose 3 point that number 1, 2 and 5

What is Netiquette? Simply stated, it's network etiquette that is, the etiquette of cyberspace. And "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." In other words, Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. Netiquette has a dual purpose: to help net newbies minimize their mistakes, and to help experienced cyberspace travelers help the newbies. The list of core rules below, and the explanations that follow, are excerpted from the book.

1. Remember The Human

The golden rule your parents and your kindergarten teacher taught you was pretty simple: Do unto others as you'd have others do unto you. Imagine how you'd feel if you were in the other person's shoes. Stand up for yourself, but try not to hurt people's feelings. 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. 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. It's ironic, really. Computer networks bring people together who'd otherwise never meet. But the impersonality of the medium changes that meeting to something less well. Humans exchanging email often behave the way some people behind the wheel of a car do: They curse at other drivers, make obscene gestures, and generally behave like savages.

Writer and Macintosh evangelist Guy Kawasaki tells a story about getting email from some fellow he's never met. Online, this fellow tells Guy that he's a bad writer with nothing interesting to say. Yes, but unfortunately, it happens all the time in cyberspace. Maybe it's the awesome power of being able to send mail directly to a well-known writer like Guy. Maybe it's the fact that you can't see his face crumple in misery as he reads your cruel words. Whatever the reason, it's incredibly common. Another reason not to be offensive online. When you communicate through cyberspace via email or on discussion groups  your words are written. And chances are they're stored somewhere where you have no control over them. In other words, there's a good chance they can come back to haunt you.

2. Adhere to the same standarts of behavior online that you follow in real life

In real life, most people are fairly law-abiding, either by disposition or because we're afraid of getting caught. In cyberspace, the chances of getting caught sometimes seem slim. And, perhaps because people sometimes forget that there's a human being on the other side of the computer, some people think that a lower standard of ethics or personal behavior is acceptable in cyberspace. Standards of behavior may be different in some areas of cyberspace, but they are not lower than in real life. Don't believe anyone who says, "The only ethics out there are what you can get away with." This is a book about manners, not about ethics. But if you encounter an ethical dilemma in cyberspace, consult the code you follow in real life. Chances are good you'll find the answer. If you're tempted to do something that's illegal in cyberspace, chances are it's also bad Netiquette. Some laws are obscure or complicated enough that it's hard to know how to follow them. And in some cases, we're still establishing how the law applies to cyberspace. Two examples are the laws on privacy (see Rule 8 and "Email Privacy a Grand Illusion" on page 125) and copyright (see "Copyright in Cyberspace" on page 133). This is a book on manners, not a legal manual. But Netiquette mandates that you do your best to act within the laws of society and cyberspace.

3. Make yourself look good online

Internet is communication media favored by many people. Internet one way to communicate online and how to communicate easily with people that you have never met before. Most people choose to communicate online because it is an advantage and can shorten time. If you spend your time in front a computer screen(only to internet) it may seize the activities you should do every day. But benefits of using the internet you also can be learn more and that's very fun. Use to internet every one must pay attention to the words or the content in question (which will be posted). For example : you update on one of your social media accounts. Because if everyone did not pay attention to it can cause adverse effects.

So, my opinion about Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. You might offend people without meaning to or you might misunderstand what others say and take offense when it's not intended. To make matters worse, something about cyberspace makes it easy to forget that you're interacting with other real people. So, I hope to everyone to be more careful in the use of social media (chat, video call or comment, etc) with people who have never met at all. May play in social media, but everyone should be able to respect or set the time, said politely, do not harass other people's lives, not abusing all existing social media.

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