Netiquette and People

Abstract Introduction What is Netiquette? Or what do we mean by netiquette? To state it as simple as possible It is the network etiquette or internet etiquette, certain rules which a user is required to follow on the cyberspace in order to sustain a well online social environment or better to say social life. To state the matter differently, Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. Human cultures are different and each ethnic has its own values and customs which are different from each other, and when we join a new culture we are demanded to obey and understand them as soon as possible in order to prevent the misunderstanding and offending which might come along. The same apply for cyberspace environment, internet has its own culture, and you might offend people unintentionally. Or might misinterpret other peoples speaks and take the offense. Above all, in online world it is easy to forget that we are interacting with other real people. “The word "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." Etymologically, it comes from the French word for "ticket." If you know the etiquette for a particular group or society, you have a ticket for entry into it” (Virginia, 1994) If we want to live in a society, we make effort to get to know the culture and custom and ages while we will be familiar with their particular habits. In fact, sometimes when we are in Rome, we do as Romans do to reduce the flaming and conflict. However on cyberspace it is really hard to commit the same common practice since people are from different cultures and each culture has its own customs. The internet is where all of people around the world gather together and interact with each other and are aiming to share information and in a way to live together in a virtual world. Over this space there are many communities with different rules but almost all of them at least some common rules. And these

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