Are you a Good Netizen

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Our survey shows that not many are aware of what count as crime or bad behaviour in the cyber world. We spoke to industry experts to figure out what figures as good manner on the Internet.

If you are a young executive, you are most likely to be hooked on to at least five of the umpteen social networking sites that populate the Internet today. Your are probably signed in most of the time. You ensure to change your status message at least four times in a day, and tweet as often as possible with what are seemingly innocuous statements. But are you aware that even your seemingly innocuous statements can be offensive to someone, and that amounts as a cyber crime?

Our recent survey of young executives and graduates show that about 99 percent of the respondents are not aware of what constitutes as a cyber crime. They did know that hacking, theft, spamming, and spreading virus, and Trojans count as cyber crime and are punishable; however they did not understand that bad behaviour on the net is equally punishable under Indian cyber laws.

According to the survey conducted by IT VAR News, only 4 to 5 persons per 1000 know the consequence of these crimes; and 2

per 1000 know how to take action against cyber criminals and in what cases. This shows that most of us are not aware about the laws and punishment mentioned for cyber world in our Indian Penal Code.

What makes for bad manners?

Today you are always present on the social networking sites. This is where behaving right becomes an important point. What you may think as a simple action or words can actually make a cyber offender. You can actually land up in jail under defamation charges. According Jaipur-based Cyber Lawyer, Mr. Vivek Tripathi, Impersonation, identity theft, fraud, extortion and breach of privacy all fall under the list of cyber crime.

In fact most of the respondents we spoke to were amazed to know that sometimes even an inoffensive post can land them into jail. In fact you even stand to lose your job based on what you think as a humorous posting. According to Mr Tripathi even your status message can drag you to unwanted lega