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

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What is What is NetiquetteNetiquette??What is What is NetiquetteNetiquette??

Be Be politepolite

How one behaves online.How one behaves online.

Do not send messages which Do not send messages which may hurt a person’s feelingsmay hurt a person’s feelings

Use proper languageUse proper language Avoid using inappropriate and Avoid using inappropriate and offensive language. There are so offensive language. There are so many other words to choose many other words to choose from!from!

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Avoid sending the Avoid sending the same message to the same message to the same people over and same people over and over again. This is over again. This is called being a pest.called being a pest.

Remember that Remember that nothing you write on nothing you write on the Internet is the Internet is private. Anything private. Anything written on the ‘Net’ written on the ‘Net’ can be read by can be read by anyone online .anyone online .

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Remember that sometimes Remember that sometimes people pretend to be different people pretend to be different people online.people online.

Never respond to rude or Never respond to rude or offensive messages. Log off offensive messages. Log off and tell your teacher as soon and tell your teacher as soon as possibleas possible

Avoid using ALL Avoid using ALL CAPS. It’s CAPS. It’s considered considered shouting online.shouting online.

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Never send or Never send or receive pictures receive pictures online to or from online to or from persons you meet persons you meet online.online.

If you find a website If you find a website with ‘bad’ stuff, just with ‘bad’ stuff, just click the back button click the back button and go somewhere else.and go somewhere else.

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Always delete unknown email Always delete unknown email attachments before opening them. attachments before opening them. They can contain destructive viruses.They can contain destructive viruses.

Never give out personal information Never give out personal information (such as your surname, address, or (such as your surname, address, or phone number) about yourself or phone number) about yourself or anyone else. anyone else.

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