13 Virtual Etiquette Tips That Can Help Improve Your Internet Interactions

As technology has advanced, a large part of our lives has moved into virtual space. It’s not a matter of being “good” or “bad”, it’s just a feature of the modern world that needs to be accepted. Good behavior in real life is also expected on the internet. Therefore, it is important to at least know a little more about the “virtual etiquette”, which offers instructions on how to act and speak with other users to avoid conflicts and make the process more pleasant and pleasant.

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“Hey” can be said to friends and more informal interactions while the “Hello” feels a little drier but still informal. However, both are more inviting than the “good morning Good afternoon Good night”, which is more for formal or professional situations. Although necessary in certain cases, avoid excessive formality and try to be more concise.

To answer a call it is necessary to drop everything you are doing to hear the other person. Many people, therefore, are uncomfortable with having to resolve issues — not urgent — over the phone when they could be discussed via text.

Often, an unexpected call is compared to guests showing up at your home unannounced. Etiquette expert Christina Tubbritt says that 10 years ago it was very common to call others, but today it can be understood as an invasion of privacy.

If any messages received by you appear as “read”, it would be polite to respond as soon as possible. If you still don’t have an answer to the question or if you’re busy, say you’ll answer later — and give approximate times if possible. Otherwise, you can give the impression that you are ignoring the person.

As for emails, there is a convention that they can be answered by the end of the day.

It’s also not very polite to rush someone to respond. no need to write “Hello?” or “Where are you?” if the person is not responding. If the matter is urgent, ask a more clarifying question, such as, for example, asking if additional information is necessary or not, so that the interlocutor can give a more concrete answer.

Remember: every time you send a message, a notification will appear on someone else’s cell phone. If you send just a few words at a time, when you finally get to the point the person you’re talking to may lose interest in responding.

Also, imagine that the recipient drops everything he is doing just to read your message and has to wait for you to finish formulating his thoughts. Not very cool, is it?

Alexandra Karepina, author of the book Correspondence 2.0: How to resolve issues via chats, social networks and emails (in free translation), considers it unacceptable to send this information through print: logins, passwords, links, phone and bank card numbers🇧🇷 Opt for text. First of all, few will be happy to have to write long strings of numbers and different symbol combinations by hand, as they will spend a lot of time on this. Second, there are high chances of getting the order wrong and sending the money to the wrong person, for example.

This method of communication is more convenient only for those who send such messages. The recipient, on the other hand, will need to look for headphones or find a quiet place to listen to your audios. What’s more, this will take a lot more time (especially for those five-minute audios) than if you explained the situation in writing briefly. It’s also easier to get lost in ideas when we send voice messages.

Send audios more as a last resort, such as when you’re in a hurry on the street and don’t have time to write. Or, of course, when you want to gossip with friends.

If you are in doubt whether or not to like a stranger’s post, pay attention to which social network the publication was made on. It is believed that if a person has an account opened in the twitterso anyone can like or retweet and no one will find it weird.

O Facebook, in turn, is mostly used for people to chat and interact with friends and family. Not everyone knows how to mess with the settings, so finding an open profile doesn’t mean that the person is looking for comments and likes from strangers. Of course, we don’t mean to say that it’s forbidden, just that many may not understand such behavior, so be a little careful.

already in Instagram there are fewer complications: if the profile is not closed and there are several hashtags in the photos, then your like will probably be very appreciated by the owner or owner of the account.

Let’s be honest: many love to cut words, especially those that don’t have much information and that only serve to show politeness. The great irony in this is that by abbreviating “required to)” for “thank you” or “please” to “pfv” you end up diminishing their only function: to show kindness and politeness. It’s not as if adding a few more letters would take up too much of your time, but for your interlocutor it can make all the difference.

At work you are a skilled professional and a serious employee who can be trusted to carry out any important task, right? Therefore, using renan_algumacoisa_azoeiranuncaacaba @hotmail.com will not go down well. Our advice is to create a separate email for the professional side only.

Here, there is an understanding that if an employee is interested, he or she should initiate engagement and add the boss🇧🇷 Not the other way around. The explanation is quite simple: if your boss sends you a request on Facebook, it can generate a lot of questions and concerns. After all, you won’t have much choice but to accept the request, and then you’ll have to think a thousand times before posting anything.

There’s nothing wrong with asking your friends to vote for you during a photo contest or similar situations. The same goes for signing a petition you have created, for example. The only remarks: don’t do this very often (more than once a month) and don’t ask people you don’t talk to or know very little. When you really need help with something urgent, your chances of getting engagement will be much higher — if you haven’t made similar requests several times so far.

Anyone needs time to relax and not think about work matters. Therefore, it is not advisable to pester your colleagues with work questions from 10pm to 9am. Also avoid broaching such matters on weekends. First, rest is necessary for everyone. Second, by the time Monday arrives, your question may have already been forgotten, meaning it won’t add anything to anyone asking it in advance.

Do you follow internet etiquette? What other tips (or rules) do you think need to be included in this list? Comment!