In the story Mr. Hainstock wrote on his medialit blog, I noticed several of the rules of nettiquette were either broken or even mangled during the telling of it. I'd like to address some of them.
In the beginning of the story, Kim refrained from telling Jordan it was over and instead changed her status on Myface. I feel that this action broke rule #1—Remember the human. While it is understandable that Kim wouldn't have wanted to tell Jordan that it was over in person, it's far more painful to be told over the Internet than it is to be told in real life.
In the second paragraph of the story, Jordan seems to go "crazy" and begins texting, emailing and calling Kim repeatedly despite it being obvious that she was ignoring him. This is a rather blatant infraction of rule #4—Respect each others' time and bandwidth. Jordan wasn't respecting Kim's time at all. He just keep emailing her, and when that didn't work he started calling her. It must have been pretty annoying to be stalked by a guy who knows it's over but won't calm down. Jordan even went as far as to hack into Kim's Myface account and screw with her statuses and friends' walls. He even went and read Kim's inbox messages. This broke rule #2—Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life and rule #8—Respect each other's privacy. Jordan was literally going wild and wreaking havoc on Kim's online social life. After he'd finished with Kim's Myface account, he went psycho on Lucas' car.
Really mature.
In retaliation to Jordan's rampage, Kim went along and besmirched his name by starting an "attack" group on Myface, thus breaking rule #7—Help keep flame wars under control. If the principal hadn't stepped in, their conflict might have escalated until someone got seriously hurt or worse.
Both Kim and Jordan were in the wrong and both broke many of the rules on nettiquette. Lucas was just stuck in the middle. Poor Lucas. I hope I've addressed all the rules broken in this story, I feel I have.
On a related note:
The story Mr. Hainstock wrote was an excellent example to use for today's class' "lesson". The biggest chance for improvement I could see for it would be to study some other authors' writing styles and find a proper editor. ;P *poke prod*
PS. I think I'm terrible at conclusions.
PPS. I'm getting pretty good at editing. *hint hint*
Guten tag~
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