Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board
Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: write on May 06, 2006, 10:18:24 PM
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since this came up on another thread about manners I would like to make a point:
a personal message is between two people.
It's a breach of confidentiality and good manners for me to make something public which was intended for my eyes/ears only.
That's my third unbreachable rule of friendship actually; TRUST.
I would never break a confidence lightly, not unless it were a matter of life and death.
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write,
Amen.
mud
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This feels a lot like the "friend" trigger. You're saying, if I PM you, it's sacred so don't share it OK? I don't know if that's what you intended?.......As long as your PM's to me feel ethical, honest and straightforward, and there is no funny stuff Power struggule stuff going on in them, don't worry, I will not post them for the world to see. (on edit: not that you've PM'd me, so now I feel a bit embarrassed that maybe I'm butting in where you're not talking to me)
I'm talking to everyone: I really feel if people are going to use personal messaging it should remain private, people say things one to another that they may not say to a wider audience;
I don't use personal messages much myself, and to be honest I rarely say anything that I wouldn't say more openly, it's just my nature to be very open, for right or wrong.
But if I were to share something with someone personally and they were to reproduce it publically I would be hurt and angry.
Other people may of course feel differently, but I still think it's basic respect, since the topic of internet manners is being discussed.