You Live Your Life Online.
Don’t Forget Your Manners
Everything connects if you open your mind.
Our group picked the article You Live Your Life Online.Don’t Forget Your Manners. We chose this article because it immediately reminded us of our fish bowls. Our fish bowls were an online world where we virtually discussed our perspectives and grew our vocabulary as well as our minds. Therefore, during the process in the fishbowl, as well as emails, and texts without groups it's easy to forget etiquette when your not actually in contact with the person on a daily basis. When in the fishbowl your conversation with people you've never even met, therefore first impressions are made online, so the proper etiquette is important, yet often forgotten. In the following paragraphs will be discussing our sentence structures and how they related to the article and what we learned. This process allowed us to read the article from multiple perspectives. First reading the article, then reading the article well trying to connect our sentences gave us 2 different perspectives when reading.
Our first sentence we came up with as a group was “It is important to observe different perspectives to learn from them and understand the implications as to why their perspective is the way it is.” Meaning, it's important to not only focus on your own perspectives but observes others as well, and figure out the root of their perspective. It is important to reflect on how you get to a certain perspectives and take a walk in someone else's shoes, rather than judging them. Once you observe why there perspectives is the way it is, you can understand them better. The article quotes, “When you’ve got 200 applicants, you’re going to pick the one whose tone sounds most like the tone you use, or the tone you unconsciously think most matches the organization they’re joining,” he said. We found this interesting because its a natural instinct to gravitate towards people who are similar to you. In person, and through the digital world. Yet, we should be choosing people who are different than us to gain new perspective. We should not stay a limited bubble of similar people or our perspectives will never grow. That's something we lose with the internet.
Our next sentence we made as a group was “A working mind creates the ability to be much more in tune with senses.” Meaning, the more we work out minds, and the more we think about how are minds work, and the complexity of them, the more in turn we are with our senses and how we are feeling. It offers a chance to self-reflect. The article quotes, In this sense, a basic grasp of digital etiquette is an essential aspect of modern “soft skills,” the communication and social skills that are frequently touted as a necessity for success in the workplace and are just as important in our personal lives, too. As With other “soft” qualities, however, digital etiquette is rarely taught; there’s an expectation that we should all just somehow know the rules. Further, there is no real consensus on what actually constitutes “good” digital manners, and even if there were, that consensus would be constantly shifting as technology advances and social mores evolve. We found this to relate to our sentence in multiple ways. In one way it relates because our minds are always growing with new information, as well as etiquette relating to technology sia always growing as well. We need to keep up with the way time shifts things that once were. By working out minds we can have the ability to keep up with the new technology and etiquette. It also relates because there are no rules or guidelines with out to work your mind to come in tune with your senses, as there is no guidelines with digital etiquette. We must learn and adapt to the changes and pay attention to these changes to keep up with what's proper at the time.
To observe people is to try and understand them. Was our next sentence. Meaning we cannot understand people without fully observing them. “As more of our lives moves online, good digital etiquette is critical. Just as we judge people by their behavior IRL — in real life— so we take note when a person’s manners in the digital sphere leave something to be desired.” was quoted in the article. We cannot always understand someone through the digital age we live in now. Like ou sentence said, to truly understand someone is to observe them. You can’t always do this in a digital age, you must make a good impression immediately, because its peoples first impression of you. In the author's case she was constantly responding to emails like in this case she was trying to be keen and responsive but came across as needy and annoying instead. Because in digital text you don't always have the opportunity to observe, you must have good etiquette to give off a good impression because people observe differently online.
`Our next sentence was “The architect gave directions to build the concrete bridge.” This was a very different sentence than the rest. The article quoted, “Instead of asking someone, “Could you close the window?” you might ask, “Would you mind possibly closing the window?” The meaning is the same, but the second option shows a degree of extra effort in an attempt to be more considerate.” Showing that directions are everywhere even though they might be in different contexts. In the real world, in the digital world, there always directions to follow to complete different tasks. Though directions come in different forms there always there. Though one is face to face offering directions to build something, proper etiquette through the digital world has directions as well. It is out job to follow them. It is important to follow directions of proper etiquette, especially in the digital world because this person may never get to meet you, for a different perspective of you.
“Revealing your ideas, and changing them with the help of others, is a great learning experience.” Was our final sentence. Meaning, it is good to express your ideas not only to offer them to the world but to be open to changing them and bettering them. It helps you to learn others perspectives and they view your ideas and ways to make them better. Like how the article quoted, “As well as choosing the right level of formality for the situation, you should be prepared to adapt according to the culture and background of the person you are speaking with and the medium through which you are communicating.” Being able to adapt to your surroundings and change based on others around not who you are but the way you act in certain context is a great learning experience and a very good and rare skill. Just like how you should share your ideas and be willing to change them, you should be prepared to adapt to the situation your in based on who your speaking too, and the context your in. You need to be to not completely change, but adapt to new surroundings and not get stuck in your own ways. Otherwise you will not grow.
Reading this article not only gave us an insight to the world were living in, more importantly how everything connects. It doesn't matter how opposite words or sentences are, or how different people are, you can always find a similarity if you open your mind. If you open your mind and go into things with an open perspective and be willing to create and relate you can find a similarly within everything. This taught us not only how to connect with people, but how to connect with ourselves to be able to do this.