My ten least favorite online interactions

1. When someone comments something that I find offensive, but don’t want to have a public (or worse- via e-mail) confrontation with them about it.
2. Accidentally replying ‘to all’ in an e-mail
3. Replying to the sender about something that concerns the group, then having someone reply to all immediately afterward: making you feel like a secretive fuck.
4. When someone you don’t know– but probably should– adds you as a friend on a social media Web site.  Also, when someone you don’t care for adds you as an online friend.
5. Accidentally automatically updating your status in a way you didn’t intend.
6. People who obviously pay way more attention to whatever you do online than you them.
7. E-mailing people in their official capacity.  (Do I sign ‘cheers’?  Do I address him by his first name?)
8. Instant messages from people when you just barely logged on and can’t talk.
9. Instant messages from people you don’t want to talk to.
10. Finding messages or e-mails long after you were intended to act on them.

When someone comments something that I find offensive, but don’t want to have a public (or worse- via e-mail) confrontation with them about it. Accidentally replying ‘to all’ in an e-mail Replying to the sender about something that concerns the group, then having someone reply to all immediately afterward: making you feel like a secretive…