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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: the act of sending unsolicited electronic messages in bulk.
»- Dictionary.LaborlawTalk.com
SPOOFING
• Definition: A technique used to gain unauthorized access to computers, whereby the intruder sends messages to a computer with an IP address indicating that the message is coming from a trusted host.
» - Webopedia
PHISHING
• Definition: The act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.
– 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