A digital creative agency from Australia, Soap, decided to illustrate the various Faces of Facebook Fans and provide little annotations about them. They presented their findings in a hilariously compiled slideshow displaying 36 different graphics. Scrolling through the images, you might even recognize some of the archetypal characters as people you have befriended on your profile page.
Though the descriptions are somewhat over-exaggerated, they do bare a lot of truth. There are a lot of people who can testify that they've experienced the "hater" illustration. They are the ones who are very hard to please and lace their compliments in harsh vulgar tones until it's no longer complimentary. Maybe there are more of the "eager photo subjects" on your page, who bug you to upload the pictures from last night until you want to smash your computer.
Out of all these hilarious illustrations the question remains, which of the Faces of Facebook Fans are you?
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Social Media Personalities
- Opportunity for businesses to study and cater to different types of social media users based on their online behavior.
- Illustrated User Archetypes
- Potential for creatives to use illustrations to depict and capture the essence of various online user personas.
- Humorous Digital Slideshows
- Growth of entertaining and shareable content that utilizes visual storytelling to engage online audiences.
Where This Applies
- Digital Marketing
- Disruptive innovation opportunity for marketers to develop targeted strategies and campaigns based on different social media user personalities.
- Graphic Design
- Opportunity for designers to create custom illustrations and visual content that resonates with specific online user archetypes.
- Content Creation
- Demand for engaging and humorous digital slideshows that can be used in social media marketing and viral campaigns.
