| Email has changed forever the way we
can communicate. Email eliminates awkward silences, and moments in life when you
think 'I wish I'd thought to say that...', are gone forever , you can spend as long as you
like making yourself into the funniest funster this side of funville.... Beware
tho'...email can lead you into the following traps...
 Flirting - Flirting is almost compulsory on the internet. Email can create
F I S (thats False Intimacy Syndrome). Symptoms can include disclosing information about
yourself with people whose cup you wouldn't drink from in RL (thats Real Life). (See
Secrets).
Attached Grrls - A few flirtatious emails can
develop into a full flung internet romp-fest which can give the feelings of being
adulterous, but without the frolicky fun.
And you know that guy who looks like Brad Pitt well
here..meet Boring Brian from accounts. People Lie, exaggerate and tell porkies even
more than in RL. Sometimes.
Bitching - saying nasty things about your friends
is ALWAYS fun, but beware email is like chinese whispers, and stuff gets around
quicker than RL (I think you know by now..). As most people use email from work PAY HEED
do not bitch about how fat/ugly/ stupid your boss is as he or she WILL find out. Email can
be traced. And its not clever or funny to use someone elses computer to send abusive
email...well not very.
Secrets - Shhhhhh. BEWARE. Don't tell anyone
you don't know in RL anything that you'd be unhappy to see posted on usenet, particularly
groups such as alt.revenge....And if you're emailing at work do you really want your boss
knowing just what really happened in his office at the last christmas party...
Style Saddos - The Net is full of them just like in
RL, you are given none of the normal style clues about people, such as the warning
signals of double-knit polyester or a peter stringfellow (american reader insert the
name of your favourite telly-evangelist here instead) Haircut. Scary.
Men - A lot of men on the internet don't like
smart-arse women, apparently some find this frightening. It affects their machismo. Poor
things.
Junk - Everybody gets it. Everybody hates it. |
