Do You Mind Your Online Manners When You Date?
If you mind your manners online you will have the respect of everyone you write or text. We all make mistakes, but online blunders can hang around for a long, long time. Mind your Ps and Qs with these online manners that are easy to forget but not hard to remember.
Think before you send. Once it's gone, it's gone. Think about it several times and even let it sit overnight before you hit that send button. Anything written in the heat of anger or in a high emotional state should be an automatic "draft." More feelings are hurt with email than any other method of communication. When in doubt, delete it and start over.
Let everything sit and wait as long as possible because you will see it with fresh eyes later. You can never go wrong by waiting.
TMI Means What It Says: Too Much Information. Do not share all the details. Did you have a blast at that party with the drinking games and the cute new boy in town? Do not post the pictures. Did you have a big cat fight in the middle of the mall? Do not put all the details online. Almost all employers and even schools now look at their applicants' Facebook and MySpace for signs of drinking, drugging, and bad attitudes. Make sure none of these show on your social sites.
Better yet, always keep your profile private. Your friends will see what you want, and those who cannot see will have to wonder. You cannot go wrong by being too conservative on your social profiles.
Look before you text. Where are you while in the middle of a marathon text session? If you are driving, put it down. Accidents while texting are increasing with every minute. There is a limit to what you can do while driving and texting crosses that line. Do not be a statistic.
Are you at work? Texting while working is distracting and probably against company policy. It can slow your work performance and make you look bad to your coworkers and your boss. Texting at work can have expensive consequences, so put it in your purse or in your locker and save it for your off time.
Do You Cell Yell? We all know that typing in capital letters is called shouting and is forbidden. The next frontier is the cell yell.
This is when people talk too loud on their cell phones in restaurants, stores, buses, everywhere there are other people who can hear. Why do people think others want to hear their lame conversations? Why would you tell anyone any details about your life with others in earshot?
Keep your phone off or on vibrate and use that voice mail box the way it was meant to be used. You do not have to take every call just like you do not have to answer every email.
If you must talk, excuse yourself and go to another room or several feet away from others. Keep the conversation short and to the point and get back to what you were doing. Remember that talking and texting while in a meeting or social gathering with others is rude and disrespectful, so do not go there.
Be the online diva you were meant to be by remembering all the rules we used to know but might have forgotten. You will be the most popular one in town when you show and demand respect and manners for your emails and texting.
Kerry Gray, the Love Doctor
Think before you send. Once it's gone, it's gone. Think about it several times and even let it sit overnight before you hit that send button. Anything written in the heat of anger or in a high emotional state should be an automatic "draft." More feelings are hurt with email than any other method of communication. When in doubt, delete it and start over.
Let everything sit and wait as long as possible because you will see it with fresh eyes later. You can never go wrong by waiting.
TMI Means What It Says: Too Much Information. Do not share all the details. Did you have a blast at that party with the drinking games and the cute new boy in town? Do not post the pictures. Did you have a big cat fight in the middle of the mall? Do not put all the details online. Almost all employers and even schools now look at their applicants' Facebook and MySpace for signs of drinking, drugging, and bad attitudes. Make sure none of these show on your social sites.
Better yet, always keep your profile private. Your friends will see what you want, and those who cannot see will have to wonder. You cannot go wrong by being too conservative on your social profiles.
Look before you text. Where are you while in the middle of a marathon text session? If you are driving, put it down. Accidents while texting are increasing with every minute. There is a limit to what you can do while driving and texting crosses that line. Do not be a statistic.
Are you at work? Texting while working is distracting and probably against company policy. It can slow your work performance and make you look bad to your coworkers and your boss. Texting at work can have expensive consequences, so put it in your purse or in your locker and save it for your off time.
Do You Cell Yell? We all know that typing in capital letters is called shouting and is forbidden. The next frontier is the cell yell.
This is when people talk too loud on their cell phones in restaurants, stores, buses, everywhere there are other people who can hear. Why do people think others want to hear their lame conversations? Why would you tell anyone any details about your life with others in earshot?
Keep your phone off or on vibrate and use that voice mail box the way it was meant to be used. You do not have to take every call just like you do not have to answer every email.
If you must talk, excuse yourself and go to another room or several feet away from others. Keep the conversation short and to the point and get back to what you were doing. Remember that talking and texting while in a meeting or social gathering with others is rude and disrespectful, so do not go there.
Be the online diva you were meant to be by remembering all the rules we used to know but might have forgotten. You will be the most popular one in town when you show and demand respect and manners for your emails and texting.
Kerry Gray, the Love Doctor
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