From the title of this post, i guess you will have a fair idea as to what the subject is all about. There probably are hundreds of sites on email and chat etiquette; Still this is my attempt to list a few essentials that many of us (including me) forget to keep most of the time!
So as a reminder, here goes a few:
1) When a person whom you know has sent you an email or an offliner in your chat messenger, we may not have the time to reply back the moment we look at it. Its okay to do that. But its not okay to completely forget about it. Make sure you reply within a day. This is important; as we often push for later and forget. People on the other side may not take it in the same
absent-minded way we do. Some people get hurt, some get offended,
others annoyed.
But most of the time, people don’t tell us about it, so we go on making the same mistake and they go on feeling offended. Of course, its all together a different story if there are personal reasons as to why you don’t want to respond to some people.
2) The above also works for sms'es or unanswered
calls. We most often keep these things for later and it’s the same story
again.
3) When you are about to leave, please let the other person know before you do so. Of course such a miss wont happen in real life because you can’t afford to
disappear without people noticing it (trust me when i say that..been there.. done that!!).
What I am talking about is online conversation via chat you have started.If you suddenly decide the need to shut down and disappear, the person on the other side would feel that may be he/she said something that offended you. Please let them know if you want to go off and don't make them feel guilty. Again, I am telling this out of experience!! :P
4) When someone has sent you a mail or an offliner, please acknowledge!! You need not reply but you have to acknowledge getting it. This could be really annoying. I found that out when I was at the
sender’s end. I send something and even after repeated did-you-get-its
some people forget to type and send a simple “yes”.
5) Well those are few i could think as important, most of them from my own experience. But the most important acknowledgement which you could give to anybody on this planet is without the help of any sort of technology. It is the something which every person has in him/her -a simple and sweet smile. No one can ever get hurt by it and it does wonders to both the sender and the receiver.
On the other hand, when you take an absent minded stroll on a road and miss all
the faces that smile at you and you being in your dream world walk with
an indifferent air, you are putting the whole world against you. Trust
me, you don’t want to do that!
I tend to be over-expressive and over-reactive on seeing a familiar face.I say my hi’s and bye’s with full on energy (not a good advice if you do that for
the byes because people may just think you were looking to get
away, which you probably were!! :P )
