CNN have identified the 12 most annoying types of Facebookers. Let's see whether you are any of these types.
1. The Let-Me-Tell-You-Every-Detail-of-My-Day Bore: "I'm waking up." "I had Wheaties for breakfast." "I'm bored at work." "I'm stuck in traffic." You're kidding! How fascinating! Just because you have many Facebook friends doesn't mean we all want to know when you're waiting for the bus.
2. The Self-Promoter: It's OK to be the self promoter as we've probably all posted at least once about some achievement. But when almost EVERY update is a link to your blog, your poetry reading, your 10k results or your art show, you sound like a bragger or a self-centered careerist.
3. The Friend-Padder: The average Facebook user has 120 friends on the site and it might be reasonable to have 300 or 400. But 1,000 "friends?" Unless you're George Clooney or just won the lottery, no one has that many. That's just showing off.
4. The Town Crier: "Michael Jackson is dead!!!" You heard it from me first! Me, and the 213,000 other people who all saw it on TMZ. These Matt Drudge wannabes are the reason many of us learn of breaking news not from TV or news sites but from online social networks.
5. The TMIer (Too much information): "Brad is heading to Walgreens to buy something for these pesky hemorrhoids." Boundaries of privacy and decorum don't seem to exist for these too-much-information updaters, who unabashedly offer up details about their sex lives, marital troubles and bodily functions.
6. The Bad Grammarian: "So sad about Fara Fauset but Im so gladd its friday yippe" Punctuation rules are different in the digital world but you just sound like a moron.
Source: CNN, 20 August 2009
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