{"id":1159,"date":"2004-04-08T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/04\/08\/demanding_normative_digital_behavior.html"},"modified":"2004-04-08T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T19:41:22","slug":"demanding_normative_digital_behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/04\/08\/demanding_normative_digital_behavior.html","title":{"rendered":"demanding normative digital behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Craigslist, an angry seller declares his dos and don’ts.<\/a> The post was marked best-of. This is a fascinating little piece to analyze. It’s an attempt to demand normative digital behavior.<\/p>\n

– The writer is trying to demarcate his audience in a digital environment. What he is selling is meant for those in his region, but he cannot be sure that only those in his region get access to it, like he would if he posted it in a store. He’s upset because the broader readership wants him to expand his distance of distribution simply because they can read it.<\/p>\n

– The writer assumes that there are commonly shared norms about the buying\/selling process. He can only imagine that the reason people don’t get his norms is because they are foreign (revealing his xenophobia). This reminds me of road behavior. I have a socially constructed set of rules about how people should behave on the road and everyone else should’ve come to the same conclusions, even though they are not the same as the legal road rules.<\/p>\n

– The writer attacks “cryptic messages” like: “i liek it plz can u do $5 lolz k.” He critiques this behavior using an anti-mentally handicapped slur. This is going to be a fascinating generational divide because SMS\/IM-speak like this is just going to get more and more common.<\/p>\n

– The writer attacks “girls” for using overly formatted emails. Here’s a cultural and generational divide. I’m still amazed at the messages i get from friends in Mexico. Flair, color and bouncing things are in.<\/p>\n

– I don’t even know to begin to address “I hope your dick falls off. If you’re female, I hope you grow a big, beautiful black cock and it falls off and gets eaten by wolves before you have a chance to enjoy it.”<\/p>\n

The whole thing boils down to “that is NOT HOW WE DO BUSINESS.” I find it utterly fascinating that this guy extends his practices out to everyone with such an irrate tone. Of course, it resonates with enough people to make it a best-of. What business practices are universal? What can we take for granted as we move into a worldwide commerce environment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Craigslist, an angry seller declares his dos and don’ts. The post was marked best-of. This is a fascinating little piece to analyze. It’s an attempt to demand normative digital behavior. – The writer is trying to demarcate his audience in a digital environment. What he is selling is meant for those in his region, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}