Comments on: Etiquette links http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/06/28/etiquette-links/ Emily Post for the digital generation. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Mary http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/06/28/etiquette-links/comment-page-1/#comment-19053 Mary Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:35:33 +0000 http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/06/28/etiquette-links/#comment-19053 I assure you, as the recipient of some of these "THE CLIENT WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON" and "I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM GET IT DONE" and "REPLY RIGHT NOW" missives that I'm not being disingenuous about all caps email being shouting. I at least feel shouted at. And not through some conscious process of "hmm, capital letters, the internet tells me that he's shouting" any more than I have to go through "hmmm, loud voice, red face, pitch change, I guess he's shouting, huh" consciously when someone literally shouts at me. I suppose there has some been some feedback: people are told that it's shouting, so they use it in situations when they want to shout. People recognise those situations and associate capital letters with them. Anyway, regardless of whether it's a myth asserted by netiquette folks as Andy sees it or a genuine phenomenon as I experience it, I don't know that I'd want it to go away. Being able to shout at people or recognise shouting from them is useful. I assure you, as the recipient of some of these “THE CLIENT WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON” and “I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM GET IT DONE” and “REPLY RIGHT NOW” missives that I’m not being disingenuous about all caps email being shouting. I at least feel shouted at. And not through some conscious process of “hmm, capital letters, the internet tells me that he’s shouting” any more than I have to go through “hmmm, loud voice, red face, pitch change, I guess he’s shouting, huh” consciously when someone literally shouts at me.

I suppose there has some been some feedback: people are told that it’s shouting, so they use it in situations when they want to shout. People recognise those situations and associate capital letters with them.

Anyway, regardless of whether it’s a myth asserted by netiquette folks as Andy sees it or a genuine phenomenon as I experience it, I don’t know that I’d want it to go away. Being able to shout at people or recognise shouting from them is useful.

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