Netiquette and SafetyNetiquette and Safety
A Student’s Guide to Proper and Safe Web
Behavior
Email, Chat Rooms, & IM
• What do you do if someone sends you an email, an IM (instant message) or says something in a chat room that makes you feel uncomfortable?
Language
• What should you do if someone uses inappropriate language in a chat room, an email, or an IM?
Feelings
• What should you do if someone writes something that is meant to hurt someone else’s feelings?
Web’s Golden Rule
• Remember the web’s golden rule: “Remember, there is a person there.”
• Emails, comments in chat rooms, and instant messages are read by real people with real feelings.
Security Is Important, So You May Want To Follow These
Directions …
Passwords
• Should you tell your password to anyone?
• Why or why not?
Strangers
What should you do if a stranger asks you questions?
Meeting• What if a
stranger asks to meet you in person? What should you do?
There are many rules of netiquette, but some happen to be
laws too. Take a look:
• No spamming
• No spoofing
• No phishing
• No flaming
HUH????
SPAMMING
• Definition: sending “junk” email to someone.
»- Dictionary.LaborlawTalk.com
SPOOFING
• Definition: tricking people into believing that an email or website comes from a legitimate source. Also called an Internet hoax.
» - Webopedia
PHISHING
• Definition: when someone sends a false email to get you to give them your personal information.
– Webopedia
FLAMINGFLAMING
• Definition: posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting, usually in the social context of a discussion board.
» -Answers.com
“Borrowing”• Is it ever right
to “borrow” or copy someone else’s pictures or writing without giving them credit?
Cutting and Pasting Others’ Work Is Okay as Long as
You…
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due…Cite Your Sources!
BY THE WAY, ALL CAPS MEANS YOU’RE
YELLING!!!!!
BY THE WAY, ALL CAPS MEANS YOU’RE
YELLING!!!!!
Following these guidelines will make a positive web experience
Online Resources• http://www.albion.com/netiquette• http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/questions.html• http://onlinenetiquette.com• http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/09netiqt.htm• http://www.albury.net.au/new-users/netiquet.htm• http://iol.ie/~dromore/safety/menu.htm• http://www.safekids.com/child_safety.htm• http://members.shaw.ca/qpac/S-INTERNET-SAFETY-
GUIDELINES.html• http://www.ukchatterbox.co.uk/article/17• http://www.4teachers.org/inttech/aupis.php