FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: WHAT YOUR POST SAY ABOUT YOU?

We are living in the height of the digital age and everyone is getting in on the action. Using social media has become as commonplace and necessary as air and we participate as if our lives depend on it.

From young, old and everyone in between, Tweeting on Twitter and updating our status on Facebook have become a daily must-do for millions. Many see it as harmless fun, others use it to network for business or moonlight for pleasure while still others use them as a tool of activism or to make a political statement.

Twitter's 140 characters or less, makes ranting through tweets quite interesting and many celebrities and mere mortals have gone after each other with an unabashed viciousness that they would not normally do out of cyberspace. Why?

Now there is a study which claims that our Facebook status reveals a great deal about who we are and some employers may be using what we say or rant about to profile us psychologically and decide whether we would make great employees, team players or not.

These days, Facebook and Twitter feuds are erupting all over and even killings have resulted from Facebook fights. Then there are the political posts pet peeves. Some users are complaining about political rants getting out of hand and personal ideology and activism being crammed down their throats by their 'Friends" on Facebook.

So how much is too much?

More importantly, what does your status or tweet say about you? Do you post excessively or hardly--and if you do, what exactly do you post? What your 'friends' might consider mindless drivel, numerous games, a stream of daily living quotes that you do not live by or endless YouTube videos clogging the news feed? Are you the nurturing type who like to post affirmations or words of encouragement? Or are you one of those users who stay quietly in the background, observing but saying nothing?

Then again you may be the life of the party on the Social Network where your status updates rank you among the 'popular,'--you know--akin to the high school hierachy-- with a friends list to match. Or the ones with the nude or drunk party pics? Or the the opposite side of the spectrum where the extreme religious reside and every post tells how good God is?

The study say they are a few types of users in social media. The neurotic, the narcissist, the extrovert, and the closeted introvert, the overblown egos and those with a sense of grandeur clearly lacking in their real lives but oozing online. Then there is the cowardly bully, who hides behind aliases to spew hateful vitriol, insults and loud nothings.

Where do you fit in? Or are you completely outside all of the boxes above?