In my experience there are two primary types of users on Facebook. The largest group is the ‘Liker’. The Liker roams their ever-expanding news feed, liking innumerable posts and offering short one-liner comments such as, “I’m sorry to hear that” or “Hang in there” on the emo posts, or “Glad to hear the news” and other sorts of simple acknowledgement for less /wrists related posts. (For the uninitiated, say “/” wrists aloud).

The second major group is the  ”Asshat”. They read each post with a discerning eye, looking for typos, logical fallacies, and any other nitpickable  statuses then attempt to bring embarrassment to the poster, or to divert the attention away from the original poster and onto themselves. There are a few other types of Facebook users but most are simply subcategories of these first two such as “Middle-Aged Housewives” which make up a significant portion of the ‘Liker’ population.

Comic from Pajama Forest