For example when meeting someone new or viewing a passerby:

• Are they into personal hygiene?
• What language do they choose to use when they speak to you?
• Do they look you in the eyes when they speak to you?
• Do they offer a firm or timid handshake?
• Do they enunciate when they talk or are the hard to understand?
• Is their outfit right for the occasion?

All of the above are things that run through our minds when we form an initial opinion/impression about another person.

With e-mail, most of the above is not available to use to decide what kind of person is on the other side. So instead we look at:

• What is the tone of the e-mail?
• Did the Sender take the time to spell-check?
• Did the Sender take the time for courtesy and to choose their words carefully.
• Did the Sender make the effort to communicate in such a way so that you know exactly what they meant?
• Did the Sender care enough to have proper sentence structure, grammar and punctuation?

People make judgments almost every minute of every day. You can say that you don’t — but you do. How you e-mail someone speaks volumes to what you feel is important and your level of perceived education.

I was on MySpace the other day and so hope that our global enemies do not judge our culture by what I saw there. “Top Blogs”  filled with profanity, sexual innuendo and ignorance. Most posts appearing as though the author couldn’t put a correctly structured sentence together if their life depended on it.

And, I did form opinions based on what folks felt the need to type about and how they chose to type it.

You are how you type…

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