NETIQUETTE

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “netiquette” at the first time?, what language is it? Me, for the first time heard the word ”netiquette”, I think it is France language or whatever, which certainly is not English or Indonesian language. And when I first time got the assignment about netiquette in CALL 1 subject, I was really shock. What kind of assignment is it? hehee

But, when I started to read it little by little, I began to understand. And now I’ll share you about what netiquette is. Well, let’s begin…….

The word netiquette is a combination of ‘net’ (from internet) and ‘etiquette’. It means respecting other user’s view and displaying common courtesy when posting your views to online discussions groups. This is the definition from BBC. (so, netiquette is a combination of two English words, not France language. Hihihi) 

Netiquette is known as a behavior on the internet. It such rule about what should we do and what should we don’t do when we are using internet. Yeah, of course because the internet’s users are all people around the world, so that we must respect each other. The examples of netiquette when we are using internet, you can watch this video.

Netiquette is important. Can you imagine what will happen if internet’s users do not have netiquette? Maybe it can be such world war in cyberspace. Hehehe. 

The function of having netiquette are; we can make good relationship with other people who also use internet, not insult or ruin one another, beside, by netiquette, we can also avoid misunderstanding in communication among the internet's users, moreover, to support netiquette, many social medias which provide suitable and funny emoticons to describe our feeling as change of verbal communication, so our interlocutors will be easy to understand our speaking. That’s good thing, I think. ^^