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• Reader Poll: Whom do you friend on social networks?

  Published: August 14, 2007, 9:29 am

  Tags: Netiquette, Reader Poll, Social Networking

  A recent test on Facebook shows that a large percentage of users on the network are willing to 'friend' strangers and thus reveal private friend-only profile information just because they asked. Out of 200 users, 87 accepted a friend request from a fake profile set up for the test. Which got us wondering:Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if

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• Ask The Readers: What does your email signature say about you?

  Published: August 17, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Ask The Readers, Email, Netiquette

  InformationWeek.com editor Mitch Wagner did an informal survey of all the messages in his inbox, and drew a few conclusions about what email message signatures say about the sender. Wagner says: Important people don't bother with e-mail sigs. The longer your e-mail signature, the lower down the food chain you are. Marketing people have company

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• Distraction: Laptops in Meetings a Double-Edged Sword

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Distraction, Laptops, Meetings, Netiquette, Office Culture

  You're in a meeting with your laptop: Are you checking email or paying attention to the speaker? Um, can you repeat the question? you ask. You need your lappie to look up information and take notes, right? But a lot of people—and you know who you are—use the computer to check scores and IM during the painful office get-togethers.

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• How To: Friend People Who Might Not Know You Online

  Published: September 24, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: How To, Netiquette, Personal Relationships, Social Networking

  Tech publisher extraordinaire Tim O'Reilly handles a tsunami of social network friend invitations on a daily basis and says he accepts the ones that actually explain who the initiator is: Most of these [friend requests], relying solely on the boilerplate invitation text, go right into the trash. "I'd like to add you to my professional network on

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• Communication: Face Time More Productive Than Email

  Published: October 8, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Communication, Email, Netiquette, Personal Relationships

  About to email a tirade flaming your co-worker for the rude, abrupt message he just sent you? Wait. The New York Times reports on the psychological reasons why email is so easily misread and misunderstood:Face-to-face interaction, by contrast [to on-screen interaction], is information-rich. We interpret what people say to us not only from their

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• Email: Avoid Auto-Complete Email Mixups

  Published: October 12, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Address Book, Autocomplete, Email, Email Apps, Netiquette

  Auto-complete can save a lot of time in addressing emails, but sending a tossed-off "Can't wait for this day to end" to your boss Rick instead of your friend Rick ... well, that's trouble. Rob Griffiths at Macworld offers his simple solution for avoiding this in OS X's Mail, but it's valid for nearly any email client:In my case, I created two new

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• Free and fair discussion: In public, in private, in your favorite political party?

  Published: November 14, 2007, 7:21 am

  Tags: Green Party, Us Politics, Grassroots Democracy, Media, Congress, Debate, Dissent, Free Speech, Netiquette

  this question in the form of netiquette rules. (more…)

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• Have You Ever Sent a "Dear John" Text? [Reader Poll]

  Published: December 14, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Netiquette, Personal Relationships, Poll, Reader Poll, Sms, Text Messaging

  A recent survey shows that one in seven people have suffered the same fate as Kevin Federline and been dumped via text message, Reuters reports today. The survey said 15 percent of the 2,194 people questioned had been dumped by text or email, although a quarter of those in the most tech-savvy 18 to 24-year-old age group would choose the

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• Online Survival Guide: 9 Tips for Dealing with Idiots on the Internet

  Published: January 9, 2008, 12:39 pm

  Tags: Building A Community, Digital Culture, Online Privacy And Reputation Management, Technology, Web 2 0 And Social Media, Argument, Debate, Discussion, Facebook, Flame War, Forum, Idiots, Netiquette, Online Survival Guide

  My first experience with online communication was bulletin board systems in the early 90s. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The experience of running a blog is almost exactly the same as it was running a BBS 15 years ago. The only difference is the sheer number of channels available for communication. Where there was once up

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• Social Networking: Netiquette

  Published: April 7, 2008, 7:56 pm

  Tags: Social Networking, Netiquette, Social Marketing, Web 2 0

  simple rules of “netiquette” (acceptable behavior) in order to see the most results from your marketing and activity. It is actually quite common for people to misuse social networks, and thus, receive no real benefit from them. In fact, more than anything among professional social networks people naturally have the wrong idea,

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• Facebook Chat Is Only Good For Spreading STDs [Netiquette]

  Published: April 21, 2008, 3:13 pm

  Tags: Facebook Chat, Internet Trends, Netiquette, Top, Valleywag, We Can Still Be Friendsters

  Facebook chat will no doubt improve the sex lives of college students everywhere. Asking for someone's AIM is totally obvious; it's like the oldest move in the Web 1.0 book. Facebook message flirting...

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• Email Etiquette Pages Explain So You Don't Have To [Netiquette]

  Published: May 20, 2008, 7:00 am

  Tags: Email, Netiquette, Reader Poll, Top

  Why waste time schooling clueless email senders one by one when you can build a web site to do it for you? A recent trend among email-overloaded web developers who don't want to explain the basics of email etiquette to frequent senders is to set up a web page that does it instead—then reply to senders with a link to the page, or just include

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• Email Etiquette for Mobile Phones? [Ask The Readers]

  Published: June 16, 2008, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Ask The Readers, Cell Phones, Email, Netiquette

  Microsoft's Small Business Center says that widespread use of email on mobile devices has changed a few email etiquette rules and details seven tips for refining your mobile email manners. The article focuses on improving email you send to mobile recipients, like sticking to subject-line-only messages when possible and keeping emails brief. We've

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