While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging.....

"While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings."
-Dave Barry



There are certain rules about the Internet that everyone abides to. Unwritten rules. Rules that can make you or, ultimately break you, because, let's face it. You're not going to be considered cool if you constantly talk about what happened on Myspace or Twitter or Facebook. No, just...don't.

I'm going to take a minute here to talk about the various kinds of guidelines one must follow while using certain social networking sites.

A) Myspace
1) Don't ask somebody about their bulletin post in person. Reply via message.
2) About me's. Give your opinion in a comment, don't approach the person in school or wherever else you two might meet and go, "I really like the way you compare yourself to a butterfly escaping from its cocoon in your About Me." That's just awkward as hell. Please don't make things awkard as hell.
3) Don't ask somebody if they photoshopped their profile picture. Rude.

B) Facebook
1) What is said on facebook chat stays on facebook chat. I myself have been a violater of this rule, and I don't reccomend it.
2) It's just really confusing when you try to explain what picture somebody should use as their profile picture. "You know the one, from my one album, that I posted like...1-7 weeks after that one party, at....God, who was it? OH YEAH! That one guy we met at that one grocery store's house. The one where you're wearing that one shirt, that has those letters on it. The color...it's like, in my 3rd favorite warm colors list. But anyways..and you're with that one guy. Yeah...that one. You look really good in that."
3) Don't talk about your facebook creeping habits to people.

C) Blogs
1) When talking about a blog make sure not to bee too specific, keep it general.
Appropriate: I like your blog, it's hilarious!
Not appropriate: Your blog about the new health care bill really made me laugh, especially when you compared Barack Obama to Barack Osama. That just cracked me up.

C) Other General Internet Rules
1) DO NOT use chat speak when talking. Don't say LAWL, don't say ell-oh-ell. Don't say oh-em-gee. Don't say BRB. Really.


Just follow these simple instructions and you're sure to extend your life by a couple of days. YOUR SOCIAL LIFE THAT IS.

Just remember fellow friends, bloggers, and blog readers. Rules are meant to be broken.