The Different Types of People There Are on the Internet A comprehensive list of the different types of people there are on the internet, written by writers we love. People Who Are Embarrassing on Facebook These people are generally your mom or extended family, and in rare cases, they can be really good friends that simply don't 'get' the internet. If the embarrassing person is your mom, she'll usually comment on your Facebook wall on a too-regular basis stuff like "How's my baby boy?" and post the denim-themed, terribly humiliating family pictures you felt pressured into last year and tag you in every single one of them. People who are embarrassing on Facebook perhaps don't seem to understand the temporal and widespread aspects of the internet and Facebook i.e. once you comment on someone's wall "come over i miss u lets cuddle," everyone, including your exes and friends and potential love interests, could possibly see it. If that isn't the case -- that they don't understand the temporal and widespread aspects of the internet and Facebook -- the alternative is even more uncanny and disturbing: that they find their comments and mass-tagging and overly revealing actions acceptable, normal, exciting, etc. People Who Are Obscenely Obsessed with Social Networking These people are in their twenties or thirties living in urban areas. They consider the promotion of their personal brand their top priority. Personal philosophies may include: "Didn't Twitpic, didn't happen" or "History is made through Facebook photos." When socializing with technological