Remember netiquette, and how we all paid close attention to the rules of email when we first all became net-savvy? I really believe that we need to adopt and agree to a new set of rules when it comes to our new tech toys. Here are some to start it off.
1. Don't update your old blog posts every five minutes. It just sets off my blog notifiers, and I get annoyed when I go check and find an old post.
2. Don't cut and paste long articles, or political tirades into my instant messenger, especially when they are completely off topic. I will happily read them in my own time if you use email instead of instant messenger.
3. When beginning an instant messenger chat, ask me if I have a minute before getting into a big conversation ... work or personal. Sometimes it takes those of us over thirty a minute to switch our slow gears.
4. Don't answer your cell phone while you are in the middle of something (a store transaction, a meal, a meeting, peeing), and then make me feel guilty that it's a bad time. The magic of cell phones is that you can choose to answer them or not ... it is not a requirement that you answer them at all times (unless your initials are JSM).
5. Please don't use your cell phone when you are checking out of a store, or being helped by someone at a fruit stand, department store, supermarket, or anything of the sort. It's degrading and just really rude to the human beings that you are dealing with.
Anyone have any additional tech-related annoyances lately?
