I recently had a discussion with a couple close friends about how each of us use Facebook differently, very differently.  We ragged on each other, and then the conversation evolved to all the many different ways other people use Facebook, including all the irritating ones.  I thought it would be fun (and funny) to try to list all the different ways people use Facebook.  And rather than writing one big long post that nobody will make it through, I will just blog about one type of user each entry.

And by the way, I have over 500 friends to gather data from. That’s not bragging, just making a point so that if you see one or two or six things in here that seem familiar, there’s really only less than a 1 in 500 chance that I’m actually talking about you specifically.  So don’t get mad and come TP my house or nuthin. And honestly, if you don’t fall in here somewhere, you probably don’t use Facebook at all.

So to kick it off… We’ll start with:

Part 1 - The Detailer
This is the person that thinks everybody wants to know every detail of their day, especially where they are and what they are doing. Such as, “I’m eating a bagel”, “I’m at the airport”, “I’m eating a bagel at the airport”, “I’m in the turn lane”, “I’m going to bed”, “I’m about to change the toilet paper roll”, “I’m finished changing the toilet paper roll.”

I think you get the idea. And these people are very valuable Facebookers because without them, our Facebook Home page would look really empty.  Of course the downside is that we have to do a lot more scrolling down to find updates that uhh… require more attention.  But hey, if getting carpal tunnel from scrolling is the worst thing that happens, at least I can feel confident in knowing that Suzy is about to pick up her dry cleaning.  How else would I know if she doesn’t broadcast it to all 342 of her close Facebook friends?

Facebook Detailers are kind of like remote controls… we continually wonder how we ever managed to get along without them.