Etiquette, Social Control, and Social Networking

Available All the Time: Etiquette for the Social Networking Age, Knowledge@Wharton

Summary: As social networking sites and 24-hour Blackberry access blur the lines between business and personal lives, managers and employees are struggling to develop new social norms to guide them through the ongoing evolution of communications technology. Wharton faculty and other experts say the process of creating rules to cope with the ever-expanding reach of modern communications has just begun, but will be shaped largely by individuals and organizations, not top-down decrees from a digital Emily Post.

* [32] Available All the Time: Etiquette for the Social Networking Age, 2009/09/30, Knowledge@Wharton [32] http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2349