Digital Etiquette

 

Digital etiquette, or netiquette as it is sometimes referred to, is a basic set of rules pertaining to behaviour that needs to be followed to ensure the Internet is better for all users. Basically it means “the use of good manners in online communication such as e-mail, forums, blogs, and social networking sites” (Digital Citizenship, Auburn University. n.d.). 
Etiquette, the word, means “The forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority in social or official life”. The origins of the word stems from the French word “ticket”; if you knew the etiquette for the group or society you would have a ‘ticket’ to gain access (Shea, V. 2004).