Netiquette should not be forgotten!
Is Internet the playground where you can do anything you like without thinking about others’ feeling? My answer is : It is absolutely not!
Some people think the Internet is the free place to dump all the feelings or expression without other’s interference, you could disobey some rules we stick to in the real world. Be careful! Though Internet is the virtual world, You still will affect other people and get return from them even in the real world at the end.
–It will be returned in the way you did to other persons.
As human beings, everyone has feelings, if you behave and communicate rudely to others on the cyberspace, the recipients will be affected, and they will act back at once or scatter this kind of harmful feelings to others on the internet, if most of people don’t constraint their behavior and obey a certain set of netiquette , the internet will soon become a huge trash can which gradually make people feel disgusted. Whatever it is virtual life or real life, all the stuff will all be merged and kept in the human’s brain, and finally take effect in people’s actual behavior.
–Nonsense or impolite words will waste the time of you and your audience.
Internet and web pages were originally invented by the scientists to share information in specific areas like air defense or scientific research, now they are becoming the sharing tool and media to all the people. It will be definitely beneficial if we share useful message which really help us solve issues in our practical life, however
The impolite or rude information and nonsenses will also occupy the precious bandwidth and time, if this kind of garbage largely evolves without control, it will largely decrease the efficiency in searching or browsing for the information we need. Saving the precious time and bandwidth for you and others!
To sum up, people can’t clearly separate the virtual cyberspace from the real world, it is the place you also need to follow some specific rules and obligations, otherwise you will get bad returns from others on the Internet , and waste yours and others’ time.
Thoughts provoked from the reading of Netiquette article (http://www.albion.com/netiquette/introduction.html) On June 18th, 2009



