The Internet is bound by unspoken rules you have to learn and follow so you can play nice with all the other web kiddies out there. These rules make you “polite” and “sociable” in this free space, where in actual fact you could to anything you want. But of course you run the risk of be ignore or booted from what ever it is you are doing.

No one likes the idiot who runs around SHOUTING at everyone, or someone who won’t shut up when you are trying to play Quake. Most of the time the rules are obvious, as long as you are not being annoying or upsetting someone then its OK.

But sometimes a new technology comes along that is a little different. Something that looks a feels like it is something you know, but there is something else to it that does not make immediate sense. (more…)