Joe Schmitt: Who are the most hated characters of Web 2.0?
We were tossing this around the office today, @taylorlecroy and I. Among those already on our list:
- Tweet thieves
- People who Instagram every meal
- Photo over-taggers
- Habitual Facebook cause inviters
- Tightly knit #FF circles
- People who only check your blog to try to take things out of context and get you in trouble
- Farmville & Mafia Wars players
- Daily mugshots
- People who don’t star my tweets
- People from Twitter who friend you on Facebook but don’t follow you on Twitter
- People from Twitter who friend you on Facebook but don’t tell you what their Twitter name is
- Salesmen who connect with you after one vendor presentation and then ask you to recommend them on LinkedIn
- #hashtag #every #single #word
- Monsters who try to excuse their bullyish behavior with “it’s just the internet”
- Push every 4square check-in to Twitter and FB
- People who click every link and then blame “the Inter-net” when their FB account is hacked
- @guykawasaki
- People on Twitter who have become more popular than me
- Oversharers who subsequently complain because people know too much about their business
- Grammar Nazis (except for me)
- People who post photos of their ugly baby every damn day
- Pokers
- People who find love on the internet and live happily ever after, rubbing your nose in it with every cute post
- Require reciprocal follows
- People who push everything everywhere— Twitter, FB, 4square, Instagram, LinkedIn, Posterous, Tumblr, Blip, etc.
- Words With Friends cheaters
Who would you add? Reply, reblog, and retweet with your favorite villains.
- Amateur Politicos
- Aspiring rappers who ask you to check out their homemade music videos on YouTube and RT to your followers
