If it would be inappropriate or rude to treat a stranger a certain way offline, it’s still inappropriate or rude to treat them that way online.
Online life is real life. The people you speak to online are real, the things you say to them are real, their feelings about those things are real, the rules of basic respect and common decency are the same. If you would never in a million years consider treating a person “in real life” a certain way because you know that that behavior is wrong and uncalled for, then it’s no more acceptable to treat someone that way online either.









