If you want to discuss work, stick to office hours. You might have a brilliant idea that you want to discuss with your partner or friend, but 2am is not the appropriate time to discuss it. The truth is that we do not know what is going on in other people’s lives, and to send messages at unreasonable times is just plain rude. It is a safe rule of thumb that race, religion and sex are topics that are best avoided. The daily requirements and stresses of working together mean that you cannot share inappropriate jokes or even comments that might have negative implications in the workplace.
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Your work colleagues are the people you treat with professional courtesy at all times. Your friends know and understand your quirky ways so you can say outrageous things and share funny memes without offending anyone. The things you discuss with your closest friends are not what you would discuss in the group with your work colleagues. Here are the five most important things to remember when participating in group chats: What you say in group may be held against you in a court of law. According to the South Africa Legal Information Institute, there is legal precedent for inappropriate messages to be tried as common law offenses or crimes. However wonderful it might be to communicate with people instantaneously, most of us forget that there are still very important etiquette rules to remember. We can decide what gift to get mom for Mother’s Day together, we can remind colleagues of meeting times, we can discuss plans for weekend drinks with our friends, and we can even sneakily discuss things we should not be with our squad. Group messaging has radically changed the way we communicate in our personal, business and professional lives.
But when you check the message, it’s someone in your child’s school group sending a chain message. The phone beeps at 2am and your immediate thought is that there’s an emergency. If I have to be defined by anything, I want to be things like hot peppermint tea and cold coffee, five groaning bookshelves, ink stains on my fingers, a fuzzy dressing gown, the smell of our breakfast cooking, the cracks of light at the edge of the blind that tell you to hurry up and lift it.We’ve all experienced it. Certainly not what I want to believe about myself. Most of the time I think the balance is about right and all of that technology is only there to help me.īut if that’s the case, why does the drawing above our social media department fill me with such a feeling of cold foreboding? Maybe because the wobbly picture of an iPhone and its apps spells out the message: These Define Me. Only occasionally do I lie awake at night and worry that all of my thoughts are becoming shallow and superficial, that I never have enough brain space or time to delve a little deeper.
I still write longhand, I still love unfolding a broadsheet, I never want to stop leaning back in the bath with a new, slowly wrinkling, book. But I’ve not been swallowed up by the digital dragon – yet. Yes, I do check my emails about a million times a day. True, I love my iPhone (and the Ether app in particular). However, I like to think I’m still a bit of a traditionalist at heart. This means that I’m probably more exposed to the tech driven world than plenty of other people I know. I work in a digital company we provide a variety of services for companies who have a presence online.
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