Savoir‑vivre w internecie

When communicating over the internet, the same basic social conventions  and cultural norms governing behavior apply as those applied in everyday life. Complying with these principlesprinciplesprinciples and caring for the quality of communication affect your image, i.e. how you are perceived by other internet users.

The consequences of disobeying netiquette:

Disobeying netiquettenetiquettenetiquette may affect your image and, moreover, it can be reported to the administrator of a given service and in consequence your access to it may be blocked. The serious violation of law may result in the incident being reported to law enforcement authorities.

Many legal regulations forbid to upload to the internet the content which:

• violates social norms,

• encourages to commit offenceoffenceoffence,

• offends other national, social and religious groups,

• insults or defames a person,

• promotes forbiddenforbiddenforbidden substances,

• violates the copyrightcopyrightcopyright,

• violates the act on data protection.

While communicating with other people over the internet:

• create appropriate messages and avoid emotional statements,

• do not provoke,

• do not create overly approving or disapproving messages,

• do not manipulate,

• avoid aggression,

• do not use explicit language,

• respect the law,

• obey the principlesprinciplesprinciples included in the terms and conditions of services.

NetiquettenetiquetteNetiquette is culturally conditioned, which means that it varies significantly in different parts of the world.

Every internet user is responsible for their behaviour. If you expect other people to be kind to you and respect you, you must respect them, too.

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