Wetiquette
Leave your wi-fi open.
Choose the right ringtone.
Don’t google-stalk before a first date.
Rotate your photos before uploading them.
Back up your hard drive. Right now.
The August issue of Wired has a lot to say about 21st century online (and offline) behavior. Wired walks you through the basics on 14 pages of spot-on remarks flavored with research backup and short, one-liners on the sides. And as for balancing Brad Pitt answers some life critical questions like:
Can I talk on the phone while taking a whiz?
I want to post a picture of my wife’s butt on Twitter à la Ashton Kutcher. Do I need to ask her first, or can I snap, post and hope she’ll be flattered?
Do we really need this though? People know how to behave properly, just use a dash of common sense? Uhm…Right. It took us long enough to learn the simplest social rules and as long as people say LOL in real life, upload pictures of their half naked kids and consider “Hungry” or “is tired” Facebook status worthy then yes, we need rules.
As much as I’d like to just re-write the entire 14 pages here (naah) I’ll just try and encourage you and spend a negligible 39 SEK to get your own analogue copy.
