This document outlines rules of etiquette for online communication, known as netiquette. It discusses 10 rules of netiquette that include remembering the human on the other side, behaving online as you would in person, respecting others' time and privacy, avoiding flame wars, and being forgiving of mistakes. The document also lists etiquette rules for email and 10 commandments of computer ethics to guide polite and respectful online behavior.

1. Internet Etiquette or
Netiquette
BY: Jennifer Rudd
Nov. 2004

2. Ten Rules Of Netiquette
 There are Ten rules of
Netiquette that everyone who
goes online should follow.
 You should remember them
every time you go online.
 Netiquette is a set of rules for
behaving properly online.
 The ten rules are as follows.

3. Rule No. 1: Remember the
Human
 You need to
remember that you are
talking to a real person
when you are online.
 The internet brings
people together who
would otherwise never
meet.
 Remember this saying
when sending an
email: Would I say
this to the person’s
face.

4. Rule No.2: Adhere to the same
standards online that you follow in
real life
 You need to behave
the same way online
that you do in real life.
 You need to
remember that you
can get caught doing
things you should not
be doing online just
like you can in real life.
 You are still talking to
a real person with
feelings even though
you can’t see them.

5. Rule no. 3: Know where you
are in cyberspace.
 Always take a look around when
you enter a new domain when
surfing the web.
 Get a sense of what the
discussion group is about before
you join it.

6. Rule no.4: Respect other
people’s time and bandwidth.
 Remember people have other
things to do besides read your
email. You are not the center of
their world.
 Keep your post and emails to a
minimum by saying what you
want to say.
 Remember everyone won’t
answer your questions.

7. Rule No. 5: Make yourself
look good online.
 Remember to always check
your spelling and grammar
before posting.
 Always know what you are
talking about and make sense
saying it.
 Be polite and pleasant to
everyone.

8. Rule no. 6: Share expert
knowledge
 Ask questions online
 Share what you know online.
 Post the answers to your
questions online because
someone may have the same
question you do.

9. Rule No.7: Help keep flame
wars under control
 Netiquette does
not forbid
flaming.
 Netiquette does
however forbid
people who are
flaming to hurt
discussion
groups by
putting the
group down.

10. Rule No. 8: Respect other
people’s privacy
 Do not read other people’s mail
without their permission.
 Going through other people’s
things could cost you your job or
you could even go to jail.
 Not respecting other people’s
privacy is bad Netiquette.

11. Rule No.9: Don’t abuse your
power.
 Do not take advantage of other
people just because you have
more knowledge or power than
them.
 Treat others as you would want
them to treat you if the roles
were reversed.

12. Rule No. 10: Be forgiving of
other people’s mistakes.
 Do not point out mistakes to
people online.
 Remember that you were once
the new kid on the block.
 You still need to have good
manners even though you are
online and can not see the
person face to face.

13. Email Etiquette
 There are etiquette  Mail messages
rules for email can be
messages also. downloaded and
They are as save for future
follows: references.
 Check your email  Never assume that
daily your Email can be
 Delete unwanted read by no one but
messages. yourself.
 Keep messages in  Remember there
your box to a are always be
minimum lurking around
online

14. Ten Commandments of
Computer Ethics
 Ten commandments  Thou shalt not use or
taken from the User copy software.
Guidelines and  Thou shalt not use other
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follows: appropriate other
 Thou shalt not use people’s intellectual
computer to harm people. output.
 Thou shalt not interfere  Thou shalt think about
with other people’s work. the social consequences
 Thou shalt not snoop of the program you write.
around other people’s  Thou shalt use a
files. computer in ways tha
 Thou shalt not use a show consideration and
computer to steal respect.
 Thou shalt not use a
computer to bear false
witness

15. Netiquette
 Remember the
Ten rules of
Netiquette and
the Ten
commandments
for computer
Ethics while you
are online and
you will not
have any
problems.

16. Remember the Rules!!!!
The End