What Type of Social Media User are You?

Everyone has a relationship with social media — whether it’s healthy, obsessive or estranged. These relationships show a particular social media personality. A recent survey found that there are 12 unique personality types across users of social media. Here they are:

1. The Ultras: For many habitual social media users, the networks are their primary communications link to family and friends. They check their news feeds more often than they speak!

2. The Deniers: They say that social media doesn’t affect their lives but would become anxious if they were told that they had to deactivate their accounts.

3. The Dippers: They access their pages infrequently, often going days – or even weeks – without tweeting or posting an update.

4. The Virgins: Every day, new people are signing up to social networks. These people who are taking their first steps in social media are called Virgins.

5. The Lurkers: Hiding in the shadows of cyberspace, they watch what others are saying on social networks but rarely (if ever) participate themselves.

6. The Peacocks: They want to gain more followers than friends to show how popular they are, accepting every friend request and follow. Online success means getting the most likes and retweets for them.

7. The Ranters: These people are usually meek in real life but they become highly opinionated online.

8. The Ghosts: They do have a profile, but an anonymous one. They share very little information about themselves and have every privacy setting possible and not a picture in sight!

9. The Changelings: They completely change their real personality on social networks to be something that they are not.

10. The Quizzers: They love to ask a question to provoke a response and start a conversation.

11. The Informers: They love to share all their latest stuff with us, trying to be the first to know everything and share something interesting to get lots of wows.

12. The Approval-seekers: This group worry about how many likes, comments or re-tweets they get when they post a message or update because they link that endorsement to their popularity.