Interesting Online Community Users

The Robot Receptionist
These are the people whom you are very familiar with. You ask how? They're mostly the first two or three persons to leave a comment on your page. I like them in a way that they make our new members feel welcomed and appreciated. How they do it so fast and consistent is unknown to me.

The Artist
They can make an art out of typed words. Globe Telecom started the era of SMS here in the Philippines. We simply call it texting. We grabbed it, we loved it, and most of us started being creative with it. I'm not sure how it all began but people started sending consciously misspelled words, alternating capitalizations, missing vowels, etc (mostly to save space) and we simply call it text-speak. Then came Friendster, all hell break loose. You can almost feel that a new form of writing has been created. Eventually, these people discovered FS, FB, Twitter, Plurk, etc.

The Ninja
These people will pop out of nowhere, find their target profile, blog or discussion, leave short lines like "pak u!", "blah blah aktibista ako blah blah", "site nyo bulok" then they'll disappear again into emptiness.

The Troll
You could easily tell them from afar. These creatures don't have what you call normal lives. They thrive in chaos and anxiety. They will spam, curse, unhinge topics, provoke, etc. Their dimwittedness is limitless. After spending an hour or two of trolling, the person behind it will simply slouch on his computer chair, put his hands behind his head then breathe the air of self-contentment. Pity.

The Super Friends
Sometimes called the Vigilantes. They don't have special powers but they use their limited resources to fight Trolls and Ninjas (if you're lucky enough to even see them). They often fight in shadows as well so as not to attract more adversaries. We're lucky to have these people in our doorsteps.

The Unsettled Souls
They're the result of the active duties of The Super Friends. They promise vengeance and chaos. Often hire Trolls and Ninjas to do their bidding. Some even swallows the lowness of being a troll just to do their own resentments.

The D.O.M.s
These are the people who look at our Members Page as a catalog or an aquarium of a local club. It's hard to detect their kind since they directly contact their choices via PM. You will never see a trace of their deeds. I pray that our ladies are clever enough.

The Poor Souls
These are the people who are in deep pain. Too deep that they're giving away their phone numbers and IM IDs to those who are willing bite the advertisement via posts like "Desperately looking for love" (or something similar). The DOMs automatically saved their numbers without hesitation.

The Story Tellers
Oh I love these people. They made us entertained by posting the stories of lives, thoughts and adventures. Some even share their videos and voices. I love them.

The Businessmen
They're so busy that they always fail to include substance or relevance in their posts.




Original post came from Renneth Suarez, a good friend of mine who created the online community Peyupi.com and whos been moderating and administering the site with me.