E-mail Netiquette

I should start by saying that I’m not trying to be a modern day Emily Post, pointing out ways to formally open and close e-mails and trying to correct spelling and grammar mistakes online. This is more about those people that just don’t get it. (You know who you are!) You USE ALL CAPS TO GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS. SOMETIMES YOU USE ALL CAPS AND ADD AN EXCLAMATION POINT! SOMETIMES YOU USE TWO!!  Who the heck are you yelling at? You know damn well that you wouldn’t speak to someone like that if they were standing in front of you, don’t you?

That’s not the only one that chaps my bottom too…here are a few more.  If you have a question, ask it.  At the end you can add a question mark…that means one.  When you ask “Is this a yadda yadda blah blah blah???” and add multiple question marks, you are actually ending the question with “you idiot” and then telling the recipient that an ignorant impatient jackass has a question.

If you don’t care for the double question mark as much as me, you’ll really hate her ugly cousin, the question mark/exclamation point combo?! This move is reserved for the king of all jackasses. I mean how do you even respond after you’ve basically been called out as being stupid. I mean really?!

Finally, if you are responsible for sending viruses and worms to my computer, I can forgive you if it’s just the luck of the draw. Lets face it these things happen, but if you are a porn watching, chain letter forwarding knucklehead you really should be made to wear a scarlet letter A, and you can just guess what the A stands for??!!