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