| E-mail rage is the online equivalent of "road rage"
- in fact, the new social disorder is sometimes referred to as "road
rage on the information superhighway." E-mail's immediacy and informal
nature have made it a unique medium for messages: communications are sent
without the time for consideration involved in traditional written letters,
and without the inhibiting social factors involved in face-to-face communication.
In an Internet discussion group, sending a message under the influence of
e-mail rage is sometimes called flaming. |
