E-mailing Tips for Kids

By: Jennifer Sterling

Everyday the people around us send emails as a way to communicate with friends, family, coworkers, and students whether they are near by or across the world. There are a few tips that students should follow when using email.

1. You should always fill out the subject box on your email so that the recipient has an idea of what your email contains.

2. Try not to use CAPITAL letters for your entire email. This is interpreted as yelling, of course, sometimes that is what you are trying to do to get your point across.

3. Do not write anything in an email that you would not want everyone in the class to know. Emails are private but can be printed out and sent to multiply people after you send it.

4. Some joking is dangerous to do through an email because the reader may interpret it differently then if you directly said the message to them.

5. Do not go crazy using the smileys, but sometimes they are a good way to make sure that someone understands what you are trying to say.

6. Do not give any of your personal information out over an email. Anyone could end up with this information.

7. Make sure that you sign your name at the end of the email so that the person receiving the message knows who it came from.

8. People that you do not know that email you should be thought of as strangers

9. Avoid opening emails and attachments from people you do not know. This is a way people send viruses to different computers.

10.Use proper grammar and spelling. No one likes to read an email that is hard to understand because it is written poorly.