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 Internet safety and online ethics

What is appropriate here in the United States today is very far removed with what was deemed appropriate 100 years ago. Similalry, what is appropriate here in the US is very different that what is appropriate in China. The internet

This refers to a persons propensity to do what is right or what is wrong. Of course integrity must be tempered within the appropriate societal context.

These philosophical discussions need to occur so the Integrity is best described as "What you do when people are not looking." bad taste, responsibility, appropriatness

Etiquette refers to the proper way people are supposed to conduct themselves in social situations. Different societies develop a set of formal and informal rules by which active participants in societies need to behave to be accepted by the group. These rules determine an individuals acceptance into the group and serve to classify people based upon adherance or non-adherance to percieved rules of the group.

Since the advent of the internet, and especially the new Web 2.0 trend, computers serve as a new tool for people to socialize. The distributed nature of the internet brings many disparate people together in this new social medium. As this develops, there is a new set of rules developing both inherantly and purposefully. These new rules of online social interaction are called Netiquette. Nettiquette is a term which describes the proper way people are supposed to socialize over the internet.

Ethics refers to the moral implications of various acts. It is a philisophical study of what is right and waht is wrong. The internet provides breathtaking examples of

Netiquette
 *  Online ethics - Integrity - What you do when people are not looking - [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity 
 *  Etiquette/Netiquette - teach proper "positive" blogging - constructive criticism