Facebook can either make you smile or growl. Here are some personality types you would have most likely encountered in the wide, wide world of here and yonder called Facebook:

The delusional fan posts lots of pictures with the famous, not quite famous, and infamous celebrities/personalities and tags them. The failed model tweaks her profile photo to upgrade its aesthetic appeal. The vowel lover uses a profusion of repeated vowels such as “Seeeee yooooou!” or “That is sooooooo yesterdaaaaaay, I swear!” The archivist posts his or her collection of old, old, old photos that include you during your fugly years, and what’s worse is that you’re tagged in the pictures.

The Bridget Jones has ‘been burned by love and ain’t afraid to post about it.’ The Erin Brockovich is registered with hundreds of social, environmental, political, gender equality, altruistic, militant, and whatever causes.

The linguistic acrobat answers inane Facebook quizzes with dizzy intellectual aplomb. The existentialist spews dizzy philosophical aplomb to even the most inane minutiae.

The gourmet/gourmand brags about what he had for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all the other snacks in between the three major meals – and often says, “It’s a good life.” The everyman, on the other hand, tortures us with every single boring detail of every single boring activity he or she has done during the day such as feeding the cat, clipping the nails, paying the phone bill, having a hot oil hair treatment at home, being caught in traffic, leaving the house, coming back home, etc., etc., etc.

There are several other personality types caught up in Facebook, of course. Surely, you have encountered some borderline folks, outright sociopaths, green monsters, and the plain dowdy ones. And because it is the biggest social-networking site in the universe, you might have also met some aliens.

Via The Boston Phoenix