Monday: 08 February
It’s been just over three years since the wide spread emergence of Facebook and there seems to be four types of users in my mind….. 
- The facebooker who signed up and couldn’t really figure it out so left it dormant
- The facebooker who puts every gritty detail of their life online, with photos (often self taken photos) going up every Monday morning to document the weekend’s activities, these people usually want people to look at their profile
- The facebooker who is starting to ‘de-friend’ because they realize their facebook has grown to become their online bedroom and don’t want everyone snooping around in their personal photos
- The facebooker who uses facebook completely unawares of privacy issues and wouldn’t know whether their profile is available for anyone to see or if its restricted
Facebook culling is now a popular catch phrase as people add more and more personal information to their pages and are feeling the need to limit access to that information…
Linkedin has seen a similar phenomenon; with many users believing it is quite rude to ‘connect’ to someone who you hardly know. Check out Art Petty’s blog (very funny) about social networking etiquette, he knows what I’m talking about!
What type of facebooker are you? Have you considered overhauling your privacy settings?
