Net Etiquette or the unwritten rules of communication on the net (piece 1.5)

Since the Internet has developed and expanded it’s content, now even more and more based on user-generated content, some have forgotten (maybe on purpose or to look cool) how to behave.

netiquette some logoI first heard about the netiquette years ago (about the year 2000) when i started having a more intense activity on the Internet. They refer to a general conduct while posting/chatting/commenting/any other form of expressing one’s opinion and beliefs online.

We’re all still people, even on the Web and what disturbs people offline will bother them on-line as well.

This article is peice 1.5 because piece 1 was the article on Messenger Stupid Mass Messages (written in Romanian) and piece 2 or 2.5 is also an article in Romanian, “Yahoo Messenger, hi5 and the path of stupidity”. Also an interesting article on kinda’ the same note (also in Romanian) would be “On Cracking Yahoo passwords and other similar bullshit”

I’ll start off with some basic things (more…)

Has Social Networking redefined the personal webpage?

First of all, the funny! I love those pussies (yeah, also those kind too :P ). I also own a cat and i think it’s great to have a loving pet giving you a warm welcome at home and putting a smile on your face when you’re sad.Kitty emoticons

Now as i was thinking of these cats i remebered a saying from long ago, said in a denigrating tone when stumbling across a personal website of some teenager: “Aaah.., come on, not another personal webpage with his cats and dogs.” (sounds better in Romanian ;) ). Well that time has long past, in the meantime some companies have tried to make easy web page builders (which was a good thing, they were the start for our current WYSIWYG Editors such as Dreamveawer and Frontpage). Oh and for those who don’t know WYSIWYG stands for “What You See Is What You Get”. Frontpage is kinda gone, now it’s part of Expression Web (more…)