Fun & Famous

ADDICTED TO FACEBOOK OR MORE OF AN INSTAGRAM GIRL?

This is what your social media says about you

If I miss out on one day of not posting on Instagram, I start feeling uneasy. And I probably check the platform give or take seventeen times a day. At least. But a platform like Facebook is something I use mostly for work related things. Hence the reason why, insert drumroll, this overview of what your social media channel preference says about you.

The Twitterer

You have an opinion and it has to be heard. You enjoy being the spider in the web, connecting people and you love clubs. You are probably a member of a book club and a cooking club. And perhaps even a club with a hilarious name that only your fellow club buddies will comprehend. You are up to date on the news, follow absolutely everything and have an opinion on all that shows up on your screen. You also have Twitter friends. People you’ve never actually met in real life but ones you can really level with. Sometimes you’re a single girl without a husband and kids who spends her evenings alone on the couch and so Twitter has become your surrogate family. Others might think this is lame, but hey what do you care, as long as you’re having fun.

The Facebooker

You like to tell it like it is and you love an honest reflection of facts. That polished Instagram life isn’t your cup of tea. Besides, you don’t even have time for that. Like I said, the tell it like it is type. You photographer everything; from piles of laundry to a load of dishes you still need to wash after dinner with friends. You also enjoy taking the time to type a long story about how awful you feel after your dog died or about your sister who’s moving to the other side of the globe. You also know everything there is to know about your old high school classmates and you’re entirely up to date about your friends’ holidays. Oh, and not to forget: evidently you click on like for everything.

The Instagrammer

You love a polished version of reality. You make sure that even trashcans are avoided in photos and you don’t shy away from a couple of layers of filters. Spending seven minutes taking the perfect shot is common, as is your food getting cold, just so that you get that perfect angle. You think about the rhythm in your profile, the colors and of course the caption needs to be on key. Most of the people you follow on Instagram are people who inspire you. This is not the platform you use to find out your neighbors daughter just obtained her swimming certificate, nope, this is where we watch Lizzy van der Ligt in the coolest places in the world in modelesque poses. You don’t like everything, just the things you truthfully do enjoy looking at. Doutzen Kroes easily gets 30,000 likes a photo, so you only truthfully click on the heart if you like it. Overall, Instagram is a pretty positive platform and it appreciates you. You enjoy showing the prettier things in life. And evidently it’s not always fun and games, but you prefer to keep the lesser things in life to yourself.

The Snapchatter

You definitely don’t suffer from stage freight or false modesty. You take on those spotlights head first. The most narcissistic Snapchatter is by far Chiara Ferragni. This woman suffers from a terminal condition of overconfidence and for most of her Snaps she doesn’t even take the time to say anything. All she does is move around on the screen and assume that it makes you really happy. As a Snapchatter you are very aware of the total transiency of your posts so you don’t have to be entirely neat and tidy. This is the platform on which it’s okay to show your messier side. And all those hilarious filters that make you hysterical. Something non-snapchatters will never understand…