QUOTE (neil_s_wood @ 27 Jul 2007, 08:32)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I wonder why it is? My take on it is that you wouldn't speak like that to people face to face as it would turn into a fist fight whereas over the internet you know you're not going to get a smack in the mouth so you go further than you would in conversation.
Isn't that what your blogs for?
Oh and, that's it! You're getting removed from my freinds list.
Neil,
I think you have pretty much answered your own question.
The reason why some people behave the way they do in internet forums is because they can.
They can hide behind their computer screens, usually with some ficticious name (which this forum just as any other encourages), knowing that they can and never will be held accountable for their writings.
My view is that one should never write in an email something which one would not be prepared to say to the recipient face-to-face.
The internet has also introduced a number of new time scales which some people are not familiar with:
- The second - the time it takes to write an email
- The millisecond - the time it takes to press 'send'
- The nanosecond - the time it takes for an email to reach its recipient
- The 'Oh No' second - the time it takes to realise that one should not have sent what one has written
Graham Plowman