Posted by Jenn Lowther and Nadia Nascimento
Nadia and I spend tons of time on social networking sites. We’re on or have been on facebook, linkedin, twitter, youtube, plurk, myspace, friendster, adgabber, adrants, britekite, digg, reddit, fark, slashdot… After having spent some time on all of these sites, we’ve made some general observations – they remind us of being in high school. Each site is like one of the cliques present in high schools everywhere. So for a bit of fun and slacking off while at work, we went through and tried to figure out the personality of each of the major networks.
Let us know if you think we’ve mis-categorized any or if we’ve left your favorite off the list.
Digg: The mass of nameless faces in high school that never quite managed to make it into any particular group.
Reddit: The Audio Visual Club
Facebook: The Jocks and Prom Queens
MySpace: The Stoners and Emo Kids
Twitter: The Gossip Girls and Social Butterflies
StumbleUpon: The Student Council
Slashdot: Band Camp
4Chan: The High School Drop Outs
YouTube: The Drama Club
**Update: I’ve been informed that I’ve left some people out. Here you go
Holypal: The Abstinence Club
Nexopia: Track and Field Team
August 9th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Sadly, you forgot deviantART, and vampirefreaks.
I don’t get all the furry remarks about Vampirefreaks..
There are more ‘scene’ kids on VF than furries. o_O
August 18th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
this is weird what group do i fall into when im a member of most of these sites =s
November 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
It´s fantastic.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
And Gaia is the group of anime people that wear cat ears (I swear, there are groups like that), and deviantART is the Art Club, and writersforum is Book Club! Newgrounds is the freshman dork squad. XD