Stereotypes for Users of 40 Websites

by @nick 195 days ago #stereotypes
Stereotypes for Users of 40 Websites




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Pingdom told you who uses what social site. AdAge told you who uses what search engine. But what about the rest of the web? GLAD YOU ASKED.

  • Facebook: Someone you kiiiiinda remember who, if you ignore them, will turn out to be a headhunter (the good kind) and if you accept, will turn out to be a headhunter (the bad kind).
  • YouTube: An advanced AI that has nearly mastered swearing and is ready to move on to the rest of human language.
  • Wikipedia: People screwing with Wikipedia.
  • Pandora: People who left their iPods at home.
  • UPS: People getting increasingly excited around midday.
  • Craigslist: Your girlfriend.
  • Amazon: People buying books.
  • Barnesandnoble.com: Barnes & Noble employees.
  • Chatroulette: Guys with their dicks out.
  • Pornotube: Guys with their dicks out.
  • eBay: Guys with their dicks out reflected in a teapot.
  • GameSpot: Noobs who can only handle BioShock, Dragon Age, and Dante’s Inferno.
  • Yahoo Games: Hardcore gamers who can plunge into the depths of Harry Potter Years 1-4.
  • AOL home page: People who don’t get how the web works.
  • Google home page: People who don’t get how the search bar works.
  • Digg home page: People who don’t get “work.”
  • Reddit: People who think Diggers are dumb.
  • Metafilter: People who think Redditors are dumb.
  • Slashdot: People who think people are dumb.
  • WordPress: Bloggers who’d rather be coding.
  • Tumblr: Bloggers who’d rather be reading.
  • Blogger: Bloggers who’d rather be on WordPress. How the hell do you export from this thing?
  • Livejournal: Bloggers who’d rather be dead! Then you’d finally pay them some attention! Well maybe that’s just what they’ll do, Mom!
  • Xanga: The 90s.
  • Club Penguin: The two’s -to-thirteen’s.
  • CNN: People who think they’re reading the news.
  • Fark: People who laugh at the word “news.”
  • Go.com: Unimaginative people testing a computer at a store.
  • Ripoffreport: Ripoff victims.
  • BestBuy.com: Ripoff victims.
  • Scientology.org: Ripoff victims.
  • Bit.ly: People heading somewhere else.
  • Gawker: Subjects of Gawker articles.
  • IRS.gov: People who are way too on the ball.
  • 4chan: Kids pretending to be hackers, hackers pretending to be kids, reporters pretending to be kids pretending to be hackers, child predators, child-predator predators, Han Solo.
  • eHarmony: 97% of desperate singles.
  • Loopt: 3% of desperate singles.
  • AdultFriendFinder: People who will claim tomorrow that they were on eHarmony.
  • Evite: People who still refuse to get on Facebook.
  • Friendster: Jonathan Abrams, sitting in a quiet room that no one has entered in weeks. He needs a bath.
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This post was written by Nick Douglas

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