netiquette

If Emily Posted: FTC Disclosure and The Rules of Civility

If we want to be taken seriously as bloggers, we must take blogging seriously. I wrote that when I began If Emily Posted, when I found myself overwhelmed by the Wild West behavior online. Almost a year and a half after I began writing IEP, I still believe my initial …

Thinspiration and Social Media: No More Mixed Messages

A week ago Thursday, I took a break from writing to wander off to Twitter, as one does. A message came up in my feed, with an Instagram link, and I clicked to view. Without thinking twice, I immediately responded. The tweet was sort of a social media snowball - …

On Pinterest, BlogHer and Knowing What’s OK to Pin

Pinterest info on the web generally falls into two camps: the how-to’s that encourage pinning with abandon and the anti-Pinterest campaigns that encourage people to boycott the site completely. I don’t like those extremes. They lack opportunity for dialogue. Opportunity for education. Opportunity for change. This time last weekend, I …

If Emily Posted: On Twitterquette

I often refer to Twitter as a social media cocktail party. It provides a source for great conversation, meeting new people and sometimes better feedback than a google search. But if Twitter is like a cocktail party, one look at your feed and you’ll see that some people can’t hold …

If Emily Posted: On The Future

A couple days ago word was making its way around that it was Back to the Future Day.* The date set in Doc Brown’s Deloreon. Except it wasn’t. That’s the thing about the web. We share a lot of information that isn’t quite right. We don’t do our homework. We …