If I would google you, what would I find?
How are you behaving online, what are you sharing, posting, commenting on?
Many people don't pay so much attention to their digital footprints these days. Even more, if they are digital natives that have always been "on" and can't relate at all to a time where one had to choose to go "online" and being "offline" was the norm.
Funny enough, if you have been living "offline" forever and there is no "online" yet, you don't ever know that you are offline, to be more precise. But this is another story.
[In which way are you going to spend your time,
online and offline?]
Still, some people behave in a very different way online and offline, acting online in a more sloppy, rude or insensitive way, as if the people they are interacting with online and they can't see would not be real people.
As if insulting someone, being flaky or letting people down would not count, just because the other person is on the other side of a screen.
Still, it doesn't have to be this way.
Cyber bullying, trolling, flaming, ghosting & Co. are not the new black, if you don't let them to and you choose instead to behave online in the same respectful and caring way you would go for while being offline and interacting with people around you that you personally know.
Netiquette and etiquette are just two sides of the same coin, to me.
["What is serving you well in one area of your life
that you could use in other areas as well?"
And how do you inspire the people around you?]
If you can take responsibility for your actions and your interactions with the people around you, it doesn't matter if you are doing so in real life or in the digital world.
There is only one world, in the end. The one that you shape every single day with your own actions, words and thoughts.
If I would google you today, what would I find?
Something positive, interesting, meant to make the day of the people around you? I hope so.
This one is for Michał, that inspired it.
Tags: Netiquette, Online interactions, Cyber bullying, Inspirational quotes, Coaching questions
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