Netiquette
Rules of social behaviour change a lot but normally we don't experience them live ... you read about it in the history books of how it was different then.
Or your grandparents tell you ... does that mean I'm getting old? No change is just getting quicker.
Just read an article at the BBC about how social media challanges social rules.
It's a bit of the "hey I'm first!" thing lots of people have at gaming boards. In this case it's more a "I'm somewere you are not and I'm reveling in the limelight of propagating (or more shouting) it through the internet"
There also had been cases of people twittering stuff that was supposed not to get to the media yet like the results of some voting.
There is a reason why most boards have some kind of nettiquette. you can't take it for granted anymore, now that everybody thinks they are anonymus on the net. (You are not. belive me)
I remember the instance (long time ago) of some teenie pestering a small software firm who was about to release their new product, a nice adventure, into giving him a pre-release version (they were nice and did that) and then he goes and in an attempt of "I got it first, look at me and grovel in envy before my feet, because I got it first this time" posted it at some hacking boards.
The firm heard about this and instead of trying to persecute him, they called his dad and explained the whole thing to him. I don't think his son was allowed to play computer games ever again not to mention getting out of being grounded ;)
Or your grandparents tell you ... does that mean I'm getting old? No change is just getting quicker.
Just read an article at the BBC about how social media challanges social rules.
It's a bit of the "hey I'm first!" thing lots of people have at gaming boards. In this case it's more a "I'm somewere you are not and I'm reveling in the limelight of propagating (or more shouting) it through the internet"
There also had been cases of people twittering stuff that was supposed not to get to the media yet like the results of some voting.
There is a reason why most boards have some kind of nettiquette. you can't take it for granted anymore, now that everybody thinks they are anonymus on the net. (You are not. belive me)
I remember the instance (long time ago) of some teenie pestering a small software firm who was about to release their new product, a nice adventure, into giving him a pre-release version (they were nice and did that) and then he goes and in an attempt of "I got it first, look at me and grovel in envy before my feet, because I got it first this time" posted it at some hacking boards.
The firm heard about this and instead of trying to persecute him, they called his dad and explained the whole thing to him. I don't think his son was allowed to play computer games ever again not to mention getting out of being grounded ;)