Wired Explains Proper Etiquette In The World Of Social Technology

i hate facebooking while on the crapper only to hear the guy in the next stall chatting away with his mistress.

**bang, bang

i'm updating my status in here. keep it down.

You totally linked to the wrong image. This picture is great (if you remove the kid)

Technogen

um... NSFW!!!!!!!!!!!!

WaldoTerpsichore

Wouldn't Doggy Style be better for texting...

I feel you on the Twitter arena but have to say bathroom cell chat is under rated! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwAAQcT7E8w

ShorashiIno

I'm not a big Brad Pitt fan, but I am a huge Quentin Tarantino fan; ergo, I look forward to Mr. Pitt's next movie.

@philselmer: They're probably spambots.

THANK YOU!!

I hate it when I'm talking to one of my friends and all of a sudden they start text messaging their other friends because they got a text.

ITS A FRIGGIN TEXT MESSAGE! If they actually wanted to talk to you they would do it over a PHONECALL!!

DAmn my generation.

They may explain etiquette but should fix their own household first:

http://www.cloudave.com/link/wired-does-not-get-creative-commons-lice...

My husband and I have a rule about this stuff... If the clothes are on the floor, so is the phone/laptop (yep, I actually had the make a rule)

aja175

@OMG! Toesies on the Nosies!: The one that ignored you the most while you were on top? OR if they all ignored you equally, then perhaps the one that spent the most time texting in general?

bustedchain

@Scuba Steve: Not if you don't assume they're having sex. Obviously, the woman has just woken up from sleep, and the man was doing push-ups. The parallax of the picture makes it appear as if they're on top of one another -- the man is actually off to one side.

Twitter must be a joke of some kind. I joined a couple weeks ago, never posted a single thing, and now I have 6 followers I have never met. Do people really just go around and follow every person they can find?

philselmer

And yes, when watching bad movies, I tweet them.

So which ex-GF is going to get saddled with that .jpg as her new photo in my Contacts?

Not to be a spoil-sport or anything, but do we really need a picture of two people having sex on the front page of Gizmodo? Did any of you think that maybe it might not be the safest for work picture?

Someone is lying on Facebook, Myspace, and Craigslist using my Halloween photo on all three of those sites. And no, it isn't me.

@spannu: LOL

orthorim

BTW I shall now share my personal Craigslist haggling win. It was ugly, but the seller was a dirtbag and so I felt justified (in hindsight, probably wasn't).



There was a small sports car on sale for $4500. I offered the guy $4300 and he accepted, we shook hands, said we'd go to the bank tomorrow.



I call him the next day (not having heard from him) and he tells me somebody else offered him $4700 and he's selling it to that person. He kind of sounded like I would now raise my bid but I felt betrayed and was really pissed off and said no and hung up. We shook hands, dude!! As I was seething, I thought - hey, why not turn the tables a little here. So I called him back and said, OK, I'll give you 4800. I had no intention of doing that, but hey, a call doesn't cost anything right.



Predictably, now the other guy got really pissed off and apparently gave this poser an earful. I ended up buying the car for 4300 - the other guy didn't want it anymore, and the seller was pretty exhausted with the whole thing and just wanted to get it over with.



Moral of the story: If you buy a used car, do it right then and there and don't settle for tomorrow. Saves everyone a lot of trouble.

orthorim

In the cl article: "Consider the following actual experiment: A test subject is given $10 on the condition that they offer some of it to a second person. If the offer is accepted, they both walk away with the cash. If it's rejected, neither gets a thing."



This game is often cited as proof that fairness is important. I just realized its fatal flaw though: Nobody cares about $10, or 30% of it. My world will not change whether I get $5 or lose $3.



What if I got $10 Million on the condition that you accepted my offer of part of it, and I offered you $500,000? That's a paltry 5% - but would you say no to half a mil? I mean, not in a game, in real life. Because I bet that, unless you are filthy rich, you'd say yes.

orthorim

I like the IDEA of twitter. Particularly, the 140-character limit aspect. Kind of forces people to stop dicking around and get to the poin

@spannu: Haha, it's been a while since I watched that. Thanks for the entertainment. ( :

Also, have you been fudging with the comment system in the wee hours of the morning?

I have never thought Brad Pitt could make me laugh that damn hard.

I would suggest "Curb Your Enthusiasm" for all your etiquette needs. Larry David has touched upon most things that involves what you can (and, not least, CAN'T) do in the bed, in the bathroom, in the restaurant, in the ... etc.

digidandy

@Nick: My island name is Nicko: There is nothing hotter than liveshitting. Please continue.

spannu

Is it OK to use a phone when you have a naked chick on a bed in front of you ?



You decide :-)
(NSFW)

betterdays

@Technogen: "Don't talk during the movie or we'll take your ass out!"

dingus

@Nick: My island name is Nicko: ps
i am on the crapper right now.

Who is she texting?

brutek

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/17-08/by_media_diet
HEY! Only 2.5 hours for news websites? And I'm supposed to divvy up that time between Gizmodo and other news sites? Not enough time allotted there. I spend a heckuva lot more time on Giz than that!

@Scuba Steve: It is fairly tame and why are you looking on the Interwebs while at work?

@The-Simpsons-Rule!!: One of my roommates does that regularly and it's really freaking annoying.

T-Will