Week 8 - The Golden Rule of Netiquette

So the golden rule of netiquette is "Remember the Human". This means to remember that although you are using a computer you are still dealing with a real person, just via the computer. So you should express yourself in the same way as you would if you were face-to-face.

A number of behaviors can breach this principle, for example;

• Take advantage of anonymity - to post/say something bad that you wouldn't have dared to do before for fear of retribution.
• Be nasty/flaming - saying something to hurt someone's feelings that you wouldn't do if you were face-to-face with them.
• Take an easy way out - maybe telling someone some bad news over the internet as you do not want to be there when they hear it.
• Pretending to be someone else - masquerading yourself as someone else for unethical things.