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Internet etiquette

🔗ElodiL010@aol.com

3/2/2000 5:41:38 PM

How far are people to take the Email medium for communication? Its very
absence of rules is what makes it attractive. On the other hand, should
people be aware that it is not a private conversation they are having? One
forgets - it is so much easier to write an email than make a call or write a
letter, but should one use this in order to avoid more difficult but
necessary communications? Are we being alienated by the convenience of Email?
Is the use of Email in matters of more emotional nature appropriate? Is it
vulgar to have an argument over the Email, or express deeper layers? Is it
gauche to get emotional in Email form? It might be. For privacy reasons,
obviously, but further, because it is just too easy. Too cheap! It is
perfect for intellectual communications, but by nature an Email is "light and
quick" and anything that requires more intense communication should be done
via other media. Sending an angry email is crude. The content does not fit
the form.
Another matter of etiquette is pornography on the Internet. I personally
don't have any objections to what people want to do with themselves on their
sites or what they are willing to show, for money or for free, but to me it
is a question of style, of fit. Freedom brings everything out in a chaotic
manner but one has to sort things out, at some point. Some things just aren't
fitting.