Etiquette in the Age of Google
By Two recent social interactions:
(1) Friend at work sends me email asking for some advice regarding refinancing. I reply with some thoughts but add that she should talk to a real expert, a guy I use for this stuff. I give her his name and the name of his company. She emails back with thanks, and asks if I could send along the contact info for my guy.
(2) I send an email around to the faculty about how we’re planning to give Roy Romer an award at graduation and if anybody has questions (i.e., objections) let me know. Colleague who grew up in another country and emigrated to the U.S. a few years ago emails, asking who Roy Romer is.
This is a minor thing in a time of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” trillion-dollar bailouts, Madonna falling off a horse etc., and I like both these people, but come on folks! You are emailing me from a computer. Which is attached to the interwebs. Comprende? (BTW both my interlocutors are under 40 if that matters).