Hi ,
I am currently working on my Honours Project, entitled: “Netiquette an ethical code or the law of the Internet?” As part of the project, I am conducting a survey aimed to research the Internet users’ compliance with selected rules of Netiquette, as well as their views on the subject. I would appreciate it if you could take the time to take part in my survey. It can be accessed via the following link: http://netiquettesurvey.co.uk/
Thank You.
I just did your survey Gab - I found it really interesting. I hadn’t ever heard of a few of those rules!
Done.
Heard of most of em. Some should be common sense, but on the other hand, some folks have less common sense than they should.
Done too. Interesting but really common sense stuff.
ME too
Nice one. Submitted my answers. Good luck with the project.
Some interesting questions…
I think formatting in email isn’t a bad thing, just as long as it’s used tastefully. I’m not sure about email line length, email is no different to books or other media… as long as it’s readable if the information should be joined in a paragraph it shouldn’t be split from the sentence structure. As for kids on the net… I was one of those and my parents are technophobic (they can’t and don’t like computers)… I hung out in chat rooms since age 14 and never encountered any issues, yea there were a few creeps but being a geek I was sensible enough to limit personal information leaking out (and how to deal with weird people), that said these days it’s become the issue of too many non-computer savvy people having too much power to share information so their giving up their digital identity on the whim for the lowest bidder. I don’t agree with “flame tags”, that seems to insight that you want to start an argument. As for phishing… don’t even open the email, there’s no point opining spam, finding who their pretending to be and letting the organisation know, there’s not much they can do about it (as these kind of attacks come from foreign soil that doesn’t prosecute these kind of people - or they cover their tracks really well). If you open the email, they probably know your account is active and then your going to end up getting more trouble than it’s worth… if you don’t know the sender or don’t expect the email… nuke it, not open it.