Have you ever been annoyed by an on-line personality? Perhaps this is a rhetorical question for you. Regardless, Mike Reed of Flame Warriors has spent a lot of time studying the types of people who hang around and often annoy the rest of us. These personality types include the following (and many more): ALLCAPS, Bliss Nanny, Evil Clown, Filibuster, Grenade, Lonely Guy, Deacon, Troller and Xenophobe.
Types of on-line personalities
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:October 4, 2008
- Post category:American Culture / Friendships/relationships / Whimsy
- Post comments:2 Comments
Tags: ALLCAPS, Bliss Nanny, Deacon, Evil Clown, Filibuster, Grenade, Lonely Guy, online, personalities, troller
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
What a fabulous site, Erich. Thanks for sharing it.
Most people play a combination of many of these roles. Only the few that fall into only one sterotype are problematic.