What do you think of Wired Magazine’s new rules for the digital age?

Wired Magazine has mulled over the complex computer and cell-phone world and come up with 70 new tips for best practices for consumers.

These are among the ideas in its article, “How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans”:

• Don’t Google-stalk before a first date.

• Don’t blog or tweet anything with more than half a million hits.

• Delete unwanted posts from your Facebook wall.

• Meet online friends in the real world.

• Texting in the company of others is O.K.

• Never broadcast your relationship status.

• Don’t lie with your Facebook photo.

• Friend your boss and coworkers on Facebook

• Leave your Wi-Fi open so others can use it.

• There’s no such thing as too many friends.

• You can reinvent yourself online.

• Ignore your ex on Facebook.

• Don’t hesitate to haggle on Craigslist.

• Never unfollow someone just because they unfollowed you.

• Don’t send out a follow-up e-mail apologizing for a typo in a previous e-mail.

• List your high school on Facebook, not in LinkedIn.

• Give credit when repeating tweets and blog posts.

What do you think? Are these suggestions worthwhile? Did Wired miss the mark on some of them?

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Copyright 2009, Rita R. Robison, Consumer Specialist