What is social netiquette?
• This is netiquette as applied to society generally. • Bad manners Bad manners are essentially unacceptable social behaviour which their owner fails to realise is offensive to others. Such behaviour can only be corrected by the example and words of others. While prejudice resides in opinion, bad manners reside in conduct. • Tone The disrespectful tone of a communication can contain portions of all the points made in this section on social netiquette. It essentially arises from the inability of the writer to realise that the addressee is entitled to just as much respect for their informed opinion and stance the writer is to his/hers. Tone is basically a question of respectful space in our addressing of others. • Lack of professionalism This problem is essentially one of correct education in the business field in accepting, respecting and maintaining agreed protocols. It can only be addressed initially by drawing the person’s attention to the fact and then subsequently to their professi
