But if the unity of the group comes from a shared interest in the Book of Revelation, it is hard to express that interest without language. Perhaps someday automatic language translation will have become sophisticated enough to permit a community to form without a common language. For now, the common language is English. We think it's likely that the mechanism of the internet will cause most communities to form in English, and that, in time, other languages will become less heavily used. Etiquette Etiquette seems to be the accumulated learning of a culture about how one ought to behave in order not to offend or harm very many people.
Different cultures have different concepts and rules of etiquette.
But the internet is global, and cuts across cultural boundaries. Rules of etiquette have adapted somewhat to this new medium, especially in English-language communities, and become somewhat more global. Naturally the etiquette of online behaviour will be no more perfect than the etiquette decreed for weddings or boat launchings, but there is developing a reasonably broad consensus about what constitutes acceptable behaviour. Not everyone is able to use this medium. At the moment only a small percentage of the world's population has the resources, education, and opportunity to use internet communication.