Year IV students’ blog for Internet Education

Rule 1: Remember the HumanRule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real lifeRule 3: Know where you are in cyberspaceRule 4: Respect other people’s time and bandwidthRule 5: Make yourself look good onlineRule 6: Share expert knowledgeRule 7: Help keep flame wars under controlRule 8: Respect other people’s privacyRule 9: Don’t abuse your powerRule 10: Be forgiving of other people’s mistakes An incident like this happened to me before. In Youtube, I just commented on a video and one guy or girl just ranted me so much that it really pissed me off. Not as if I cursed someone nor did anything wrong. I just said that it’s funny. Well it’s funny for me. Then he started to curse me and said that it is not and added stuff about religion.This also happened to me in an online game. Well it’s an online game so most probably you’re going to fight or kill someone on a player versus player mode. So I killed this guy and I don’t know why he cursed me so much but there is nothing wrong in what I did. I just killed him it’s the whole purpose of the game anyway.In other times I had already done this to so many people but I did this because I have a reason. They started it but sometimes I just feel like doing it. But now I read this core rules. I guess I’m going to lessen it or stop.

My personal experience regarding the core rules of Netiquette is that I will be friendly to others so they will be friends with me. I chatted with my cousins and friends but it is not important. When it is already my turn to show and tell, I shared to my classmates what I know about Jianne Garcia (Rael’s sister). When I said something wrong about my cousin and she forgave me.

Rule 1: Remember the Human

Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life

Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace

Rule 4: Respect other people’s time and bandwidth

Rule 5: Make yourself look good online

Rule 8: Respect other people’s privacy

             In my personal experience, I absolutely know I never insulted anyone in the Internet all my life (at least when I knew I was going to do so). I treat anyone in the Internet as real people though I make friend with them there easier. I’ve never typed in any swear word in the Internet and I have always typed like this; no shortcuts because I’m not used to chatting; the reason is that I don’t own a cellphone. So far, I’m no expert at anything Internet yet and I have never participated in any flame war, either. Well, I did participate in a war but it was a game website plot; the “Return of Dr. Sloth” in Neopets.com 2007 early 2008. I have always respected people’s privacies. I have never disgraced any newbie, but then again, I never encountered a newbie’s mistake before.

2(?) summers ago, a “pop008” added me in my Multiply account. At first I thought he/she was just new because the account he/she has was completely empty. No pictures, no blog entries, not even a headshot. He/She first started sending me private messages in Multiply. Saying foul things about me and telling everyone how much of a bit*h I am. I had no idea who that person was, so I didn’t react. That went on for days. I got pissed and replied telling him/her to stop. More PMs and now comments on my inbox and blog came. He/she started sending PMs to my contacts again regarding me being a bit*h. Others started to track down who that person is. They have come up with a few people who they think that was but I didn’t care. I just wanted it to stop. With all that happening, that pop008 managed to hack my account, change its settings and password, and even deleted some of my albums. Although he/she did all that, he/she DID NOT change the e-mail account everything is sent for my account. I hit the “forget password” button and had my password sent to my e-mail. I changed everything back to they way they were and made everything for private viewing only.

My experience in cyberspace is one of the most common mistakes committed online. Before I don’t really know how to talk to people online specially when chatting unlike email where I can actually check what I have written down. So before when chatting my replies was brief and I feel that they understand what I am saying. But then they didn’t I don’t show emotions before so I usually get misinterpreted by others and sadly we get into an argument and sadly I usually lose because it is hard for me to explain myself in cyberspace not to mention they type faster than I can. Speaking of typing I still am a slow typer compare to my friends and this is quite a disability when it comes to online chatting this makes for you hard to reply to their message and again makes them misinterpret you even more.
When talking to people I try my best to be as clear and simple as possible and now I started using emoticons to show what I’m really feel. Before I was talking to a friend then I started throwing things at her but it was only a joke then she started getting angry and she started throwing offensive messages at me. I wondered why I feel that I’m not really doing anything wrong for her to say those hurtful words. So then I asked her why and she wouldn’t tell me because she was still furious. So I checked if I said anything wrong. I went through my archives I found that what I was saying was actually offensive because I showed no feelings and it was actually easily misinterpreted even I would thing if this was sent to me I would get irritated. So I apologized and promise to be more careful of my words and be a lot clearer about my expressions.
So when chatting always remember to keep in mind that you are not talking face to face. Remember that your expressions are not seen so try to show it as best as you can. Use emoticons to make it clearer. Try to keep it simple but understandable. Try your best to understand what the person is saying before replying because you may also be a victim of this misunderstanding that is happening over the net.

• Rule 1: Remember the Human

• Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life

• Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace

• Rule 4: Respect other people’s time and bandwidth

• Rule 5: Make yourself look good online

• Rule 6: Share expert knowledge

• Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control

• Rule 8: Respect other people’s privacy

• Rule 9: Don’t abuse your power

• Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people’s mistakes

One time while I was using ym, someone suddenly im(ed) me. First she asked for my A/S/L or Age Sex and Location. Before answering the question I asked her if she really knew me but she said that she didn’t. I asked her where she got my email and she said from her friend, so I asked her “what is  the name of your friend?”. She said that it was a secret. She asked me if I was willing to be her friend but I did not want. Then she told me that I was a bad boy and that my parents were not able me to teach good manners. She cursed me because I was ignoring her im. Because of that I sent her email add to the ignore list to prevent the further disturbance.

I could still remember the accident that I made during my year three life. It was a bright sunny morning, me and the team where waiting for the referee to whistle. Yes, it’s a soccer festival. I was text messaging my friend. We were in quite a quarrel that time. My contacts where arrange like this: **Friend**–> Aeron–> etc. Then when you press the up arrow it will go to Zach. There, I was arguing with my friend and I accidentally sent the message to Zach. Two days later, I was in school then he approached me and asked me if the message is true. I was so embarrassed. The whole class was teasing me and making fun of me. Form that day onward, I promised that I won’t be blind texting (no look) or I’ll double check if the number is correct.

There was another incident that happened, I can’t remember where and when. My dear classmate Joan was hacked by this Pop008. I don’t know how or why. Pop008 discovered Joan’s password and it keeps on telling false information about her. From that incident, I learned that your password should be strong and hard to guess.

• Rule 1: Remember the Human

• Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life

• Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace

• Rule 4: Respect other people’s time and bandwidth

• Rule 5: Make yourself look good online

• Rule 6: Share expert knowledge

• Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control

• Rule 8: Respect other people’s privacy

• Rule 9: Don’t abuse your power

• Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people’s mistakes