May 12, 2011
Classifying Facebook status updates… Which one are you?
From Endless Origami…
I don’t really mind being a version of the self-promoter. And I hope I also qualify as interesting from time to time.
Which one are you? Or is there a category missing?
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The headliner-always commenting on whatever is in the headline news including dumb celebrity relationship happenings and break-ups
There’s also:
Mrs. My kid just said/did… (this may be me)
Mr. Just woke up… Making toast now… Looking for my keys (posts every bit of life)
Miss. You need to know how much weight I’ve lost this week and what I’m eating every day.
this would be more like twitter…
THIS. I have blocked people because I was so tired of hearing of how much food they wanted to eat but weren’t eating and then how great their diet was making them feel. With weekly weigh-ins and photos.
I would probably be the optimist… which is great, right? :)
and i would add “the vaguebooker” (a close relative to the drama).. they always say.. “It’s almost time…” or “I can’t believe that just happened!!”
Love the “vaguebooker” title!:-)
Ugh, I think I’m somewhere between self-promoter and dear inanimate object. Or maybe I’m the “religious guy” category. That does not mean that I put updates that say, “Click ‘Like’ if you think Jesus is Awesome!”
I think I’m the self- promoter/optimist…but i can be all of them at every once in a while :P
I am Mrs. my kid said/did…
SCREAMO STATUS UPDATES ARE MISSING! :P
I guess I’m the optimist, and also the “my kid just said/did…” that someone listed in a comment. :)
I think there should also be one for “the commentator”, where they comment on an entire sports game, or an entire TV show (Glee is all too common on my news feed). Yikes.
Yes! The apprentice, x factor, glee. No escape!
I’m also a version of self-promoter. If you click on the link above this comment you can see my blog, which links to my twitter account and youtube channel, both of which are about me.
Definitely left out the person who complains about everything…the weather…work…lack of sleep.
Andrea is definitely right about the “Vaguebooker”. “Man, that was fun.” That stuff drives me crazy.
There are also the “chainbookers.” They always tell you to copy their status and make it yours for an hour because apparently it will help find a cure for countchoculitis. These are the same people who always post about how facebook is trying to steal your identity to sell it to the rest of the internet.
YES. I have several people who do both of these things. Drives me nuts.
I’m more of the “Drunken Updater” … I don’t drunk dial, I drunk tweet and drunk update … otherwise I’m more of a lurker, just reading and liking others’ update, but not updating my own status that often.
The verse-of-the-day guy
The song-lyric guy (although lyrics fit well with many previously mentioned categories)
I’m a bit self-promote, a bit inanimate object. I’m also part troll, and hopefully part interesting.
I’m an occasional “Dear Inanimate Object”-er.
There could be a category for “The Man/Woman of Mystery”, people who put up status updates so incredibly vague and non-informational that you have no idea if they’re happy, sad, angry, bored, or simply messing with your head. Things like, “Sigh.” Or, “Well, that was unexpected.” Or, “Ha. Go figure.”
Occasional dear-inanimate-objecter and sometime self-promoter, but about 90% of my posts are in the other 10%… usually I’m sharing content (not my own) that I’ve found around the web: quotes, retweets (though optimized for facebook, as “RT @soandso blah blah blah #subject” just looks silly in that context), articles, funny things, etc.
no. you’re not.
Not interesting, I’ll grant… :p
Meh, I’ll just say all of the above at times, except the constant drama one. Those drive me nuts.
You forgot the category of people who don’t do Facebook. I’m one of them.
I think this must put you in the 10% that are interesting!
Equal parts optimist and dear inanimate object. I save all my vaguebooking and snark for Twitter.
What about the spoilers? You know- the ones who post what happened on a tv show or reality show RIGHT after it happens, when 90% of America DVR’d it with plans to watch it later? Yeah, gotta love that!
What about the serial cat people? Mitzy’s watching a DVD (with photo), Benji sleeping (seven photos daily at 20 minute intervals). Personally, I think they’re worse than the kid-posters!
I’m the Mrs. my kid said/did…I wait until my kids say/do something totally funny to update my status.
Do the TMI people get catogorized under constant drama? Those irk me.
the description of people who post that first update should be more like –Sees the world as a strip club, frequently takes close-up pictures of her own duckface, enjoys quoting the Bible, considers herself “a good mother”
What about those like me that are constantly looking for funny status updates? I like to make me people laugh, generally by dissing myself. Oh, and the cat person, I’m definitely that as long as they are doing something totally funny/sarcastic.
Don’t forget the Facebook Pundit. They’re the ones who post political articles and make inane, idiotic commentary on how our country is going to hell. Applicable regardless of the political affiliation. It should be “Fundit,” but that implies fun; the Fundit is enjoyable for NO ONE.
As a teenager I am currently leading a vendetta against psychotic parents who find it hilarious to post every embarrassing blunder their child makes.
Parents: DO NOT DO THE ‘MY KID JUST SAID/DID THIS’ THING. YOUR KIDS WILL HATE IT.
I’m a “My kid said this awesome shit” poster. I can’t help myself! They’re so freakin’ awesome!
I think the flipside of that situation is, if parents *didn’t* find everything you did funny/amazing or whatnot, I am betting you would feel like they didn’t give a crap about you and it would be far worse than the “mortifying embarrassment” all teens feel about one or more parent at any given time. Hopefully your parents aren’t being jerks about it, but rather just think you are doing some pretty cute/funny/cool/amazing stuff.