Online Personas

Crafting an online persona is becoming an art form. As with all other art forms, they incorporate at least a little fiction. It is possible to identify genres and -- you guessed it -- tropes.

Personality Types:


 * Emo
 * Garbage Post Kid
 * Griefer
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * Internet Cold Reader
 * Internet Detective
 * Internet Mimic
 * Internet Tough Guy
 * Left Fielder
 * Lurker
 * Me Too
 * Mediator
 * Ninja Editor
 * Orwellian Editor
 * Single-Issue Wonk
 * The Shepherd
 * Spammer
 * Suffers Newbies Poorly
 * Thread Necromancer
 * Troll
 * YouTube War Expert

Purposes/Roles


 * A Darker Me
 * Cam Whore
 * Derailing
 * GIRL
 * Hit-and-Run Poster
 * Resident Freak
 * Shameless Self Promoter
 * Sock Puppet
 * The Shill
 * White Knighting

Theory


 * GIFT (Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory)
 * GIRL (Guy In Real Life)
 * Misplaced Nationalism
 * There Are No Girls On the Internet

Other


 * Digital Avatar