*Also tonight my best friend just learned I am adopted, how awkward is that. (That's just a side note for me)
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Did you know that there are over
800 million active users on Facebook? And over 200 million active Twitter
accounts? Of these millions of users almost every single one of them has to
post or tweet on almost every subject until the day they die or until the day
the world ends, but even then I think we will still be tweeting over what Lady
Gaga wore at the last Grammy Award show. Now, yes, that’s the point of these
social sites, to express all the mind blowing facts going on in our lives, but
let’s get truly acquainted with what we are and who we really look like in
the social network and let’s look into our virtual personality.
Let’s first
begin with the simple “Endless Exclaimer”.
These are the people whose
reactions to posts or tweets involve holding down the caps lock button until it
about breaks and typing in exclamations such as “WOW!” “OMG!” “I LOVE YOU SOOOO
MUCH!!!” and finally, saved the best for last, the “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL”.
As if it wasn’t made clear that the first “LOL” didn't highlight how funny it
was. They are positive and excited people, but they can be a true nuisance.
Then we have
the “Creeper”.
Every single one of us is a Creeper, let’s face it whether we admit
it or not it’s just the truth. The odd thing about social networks is that it
was specifically designed for creepers. Just glancing at a page that isn’t germane can
get you enlisted as creeper status. Creepers
silently stalk your profiles day or night and later bring up conversations with
you about what you did over the weekend, as if they were there at the party.
Some creepers are even “bad guys”, so just be careful out their kids!
Then the actual
“Twitterpaters”.
Those of us lucky enough to have
found love in our lives have now become obliged to show our unstable emotion to
the entire virtual community. They will post and tweet about every love quote from
cute lyrics of country love songs to passionate excerpts from 80’s movies; Twitterpaters are constantly on a love
frenzy. Ewwy, gushy, lovey yuck!
Twitterpaters though are not as bad as their close cousins…
Yes, the “Mood Swingers”.
Mood Swingers will post or tweet about how happy and gleeful they
are one minute and the next, mope and cry over how their life is on the verge
of utter despair. Just take a chill pill and relax! Basically the
characteristics of an adolescent teen best describe the term of those who are
emotionally unstable. It can be disturbing to see and you only wonder what is
really going on in those sad bipolar lives.
And then “The Unending Updater “or the “Tweet Repetitioners”.
The kind of person who is sadly
addicted to a screen with a bag of Lay’s potato chips at their side for comfort. They will inform you about everything,
literally everything, going on in their lives or in the world. They’re like the
newscaster from Fox 13 who wouldn’t shut up. From the time they wake up, to
eating lunch at Olive Garden, to working in the office, to getting home to when
they finally fall asleep at 2 am. They’ll also retweet everything so you get the
joy of seeing updates twice. Yeah, best you click the "hide all status
updates" button for these guys.
In the end there are probably oh
so many more types of online social networking personality traits. We could get
into the rhetorics, the idolizers, the celebrities who keep the idolizers constant ,or the blogger (including myself), or even the
"failed every spelling Bee mistyper".
So I hope this helped you realize who you are when others see what you say
online, and maybe you've even learned. Think twice about what you say, hold
back on the constant craving to tweet, and refrain from further posting and
actually look at yourself. Are you one of these Facebook or Twitter users? In
the mean time, I have a blog to get back to.
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