I looked up a dictionary to start this writing to know what exactly 'civil' is. Meriam-Webster learner's dictionary defines civil as 'It is polite but not friendly : only as polite as a person needs to be in order to not be rude'. So, let's begin with a question. Do we have to be civil on the internet, if so, how important it is?
There was certain time when netizens's social behavior on the internet were issued. Because some of them attacked others with unproved information or for no reason. Especially in Korea, to be honest, our mind-set is not as developed as our technology and that has been a social problem. It's important to be polite in the real world but it's even more important to be polite, be civil on the internet, because it is an anonymous world. You can't see people face to face who you are taking with. So there is more possibility for what you type to be misunderstood. That's why you need to be extra careful. It's very easy to type whatever you think although it might look rude, and I understand it has more temptation to do so. However, it is the another world, and you live with them. What you type affect your world and you are also affected by that. You don't have to be extra friendly to be civil, but you need to be polite to others just as what you treated by others and that's same everywhere.
We almost everyone have experience about annoying or misunderstanding when we communicate each other via on-line of cyber space. So we have to be more civil, more polite, more understand others in order not to be make a fight, debate that without any concern with other users.
ReplyDeleteI saw many defamatory article on the internet in Korea. Also I watched that a singer who has been insulted for a long time talked about that fact and her feeling. After I watched, I felt some people who wrote bad post or comment didn't feel guilty because of anonymity. So I think government has to make law about internet order to be more civil and polite.
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