My buddy Kfir Pravda recently published an excellent, though slightly sexist, post titled “5 Characters We All Met in the Social Media Place“.
Kfir introduces 5 obsessive/disturbed types -
· The Babe – a good looking female, which about concludes her attributes.
· The Plaxo Spammer – an obsessive distributor of (his/her) contact information.
· The Obsessive Networker – an obsessive collector of connections in the various business and social networks. This character strongly reminded me of The Hunter Guy, I mentioned in my previous Who’s who post.
· The Virtual Stripper – an obsessive story-teller, where the main hero is oneself…
· The I-Am-All-About-Business Guy – a healthy individual desperately trying to separate between his professional and personal life, and evoking criticism in the process. This character somewhat reminded me of The Abstaining Guy, I mentioned in my previous Who’s who post.
Kfir’s post is definitely worth reading and pondering.
One comment, though -
Kfir, I do not think of myself as a PC freak, but I do have one issue with your “babes”. I do not ignore the fact that the social media space is abundant with babes, but why not mention that some of them are male?…
Kfir is clearly looking for satire, but I have to agree with you, there are way too many of the smooth talking slick guys walking around who throw around all the right words but provide no substance. Ahh, life on the edge.