My FaceBook account says that I joined in 2007, but this was not my first experience with internet social communication. In the fifteen-or-so years since the World Wide Web became widely popular, I’ve managed bulletin boards, provided customer service and minimal tech support for an ISP, created and helped program a PHPbb site (or two), have had accounts with MySpace, Twitter and Facebook and now work as a web clerk for a daily newspaper. The internet has allowed society to communicate with others in so many beneficial ways. However, the internet also allows people to completely avoid face-to-face communication, which, in turn allows us to dodge some uncomfortable encounters. Consequentially, this often leads people to forget common etiquette that one would normally follow in a face-to-face social setting.

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