She loves me, she loves me not. These days you don’t need to sit and wonder. Instead, look at his or her facebook relationship status update and you’ll know where you stand on the digital totem pole as it relates to matters of the heart. “What happens when a mobile society meets relationship disasters?” In…
It appears to many that the world-wide-web has become the wild-wild-west. There are over a billion tweets sent on twitter every week, and while building your brand may make you feel like an overnight sensation, it’s time to take a digital pause and take a look at how we are representing or mis-respresenting ourselves online.
As July marks National Cell Phone Courtesy Month, it’s time to pause and take notice on how discourteous we’ve become as we continue to spend the majority of our time attached to our smart phones. According to the International Telecommunications Union, 6.1 trillion SMS messages were sent in 2010. In addition, there’s an estimated 5.3…
Did you know that it’s National eMail Week? Every year, during the second week in June we should pause and think about the trillions of emails that are sent every year and think about practicing our rules of netiquette before pushing the send button. So without further digital adieu, here are some Dos and Don’ts…
As we share our social media experiences on Facebook and Twitter with each other, from time-to-time, something is so bothersome to me that it’s like the feeling of screeching chalk on a digital blackboard. I shared a story which will appear in a chapter in my book, The Rules of Netiquette — To Tag, or…
You may wonder what is the correct Internet etiquette to honor and mourn the loss of a friend on Facebook, Twitter, and in real life, at the time of their death. Recently, both celebrities and friends have taken their lives. We are stunned and saddened when we hear the news, but are unsure as to…
Did you know that over 107 trillion emails were sent in 2010? According to technology market research firm Radicati Group, Inc. an average of over 294 billion emails are now being sent every day. Every morning we wake up to an overflowing inbox and have to quickly sift through the emails to decide which ones…
In this day of information at your digital fingertips, it’s become too easy to get data and become an obsessive snoop, even in your own household. In pre-netiquette days, if you had a hunch that your honey or beau was cheating on you, you might have hired a detective. Today, as it relates to suspicious…
Julie Spira, author of The Rules of Netiquette, was a guest on NBC News with Chuck Scarborough to talk about her book, The Rules of Netiquette. Learn some of the netiquette rules for email, Facebook, Twitter, and cell phone etiquette.
