netiquette - online etiquette resource
Netiquette is online etiquette. If you are interested enough to Google, or Ask, "netiquette" you will find hundreds of resources, but however you word your search the top few will take you to the Albion.com public service site. Here, the "Core Rules of Netiquette" are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea (external links)
- Introduction
- Rule 1: Remember the Human
- Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life
- Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace
- Rule 4: Respect other people's time and bandwidth
- Rule 5: Make yourself look good online
- Rule 6: Share expert knowledge
- Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control
- Rule 8: Respect other people's privacy
- Rule 9: Don't abuse your power
- Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes
Related information (external links):
Email Etiquette for Students (Purdue)
College project on social computing, netiquette guidelines (Wellesley) [contains some narrated pages]
Nine Tips for Written Communication Etiquette (Emily Post Institute)