How to behave in the digital age

The cover story in this month's Wired magazine is How to Behave: the New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans. With the advent of the internet, particularly with regards to  social networking, it is difficult to know where to draw the line of acceptability. Where is the boundary between 'normal' and just creepy. Wired has compiled an excellent list of suggestions for our'new' standard of conduct. My favorites include:

• Don't Google stalk before a first date
• Don't lie with your Facebook photo
• Leave your Wi-Fi open
• Never broadcast your relationship status
• Don't Hesitate to haggle on craigslist
• There's no such thing as too many friends

You guys should take a gander at the explanation to these and other rules here.

Finally, I must note that by making this post, I have effectively violated rule #2, Don't blog or Tweet anything with more than half a million hits. Obviously, Wired is an internationally renowned technology magazine and is bound to have millions of hits every day. I have no defense to this and can only hope that you, the members of my decidedly small audience, will pardon my bad manners.