Facebook users explained
I read an article yesterday that identified the 12 most annoying types of Facebook users. Sure enough, I think I live in at least one of the personas they identified (and mocked) but I also believe that the user types they identified are exactly the reason I like/love Facebook. And while I have sometimes found fault with others who have used social networking in self serving ways, we have to be realistic. Does anyone expect it to be entertaining and never irritating? I doubt it.
So that being said, I have used Facebook to promote my recent accomplishments. I have told people what I was doing from hour to hour (although not regularly), I have lots and lots of “Friends” and yes not all of them have been over to my house for dinner. But all of the above have been done in good measure.
Yes, it is a little irritating reading posts from individuals who have decided to move their hourly/minute blog into Facebook, but, I can always “de-friend” them and they are gone. The point is that Facebook is whatever we want it to be. I could have 10 friends and carry on intimate but public conversations but instead I have taken the whole Facebook sandwich with everything on it.
And like any good sandwich, sometimes the last bite is not as good as the first but it is pretty filling.