{"id":545,"date":"2008-06-13T22:20:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2008-06-13T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T21:20:58","slug":"mind-your-virtual-manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Mind your (virtual) manners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeebus save us. Debrett&#8217;s, the voice of etiquette, has brought its weight to bear on <strong>Facebook<\/strong> and <strong>MySpace<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSL1313262220080613?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews\" target=\"_blank\">The advice<\/a> is usable, if a bit stuffy (the below is copied from Reuters):<\/p>\n<p>1. You don&#8217;t have to make friends with people you don&#8217;t know. Think before you poke.<\/p>\n<p>2. Wait 24 hours before accepting or removing someone as a friend. The delay will help you gather your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>3. Birthdays, engagements and weddings are not &#8220;virtual&#8221; events. Always send cards or phone friends when there is an important event.<\/p>\n<p>4. Think before posting a friend&#8217;s photo what you would feel like if it was you.<\/p>\n<p>5. Think carefully about your profile picture. Would you want it to be appearing in your local newspaper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeebus save us. Debrett&#8217;s, the voice of etiquette, has brought its weight to bear on Facebook and MySpace. The advice is usable, if a bit stuffy (the below is copied from Reuters): 1. You don&#8217;t have to make friends with people you don&#8217;t know. Think before you poke. 2. Wait 24 hours before accepting or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}