The 11 Types of Bloggers
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As a Blogger myself, a lot of my time is devoted in reading other blogger’s blogs. The one thing i have noticed is that each and every blogger is very different in their approach and also in their style of writing. The same topic may be written in two entirely different forms.
We usually have the tendency to categorize people into groups on the basis of their behavior, characteristics. Today I am going to categorize bloggers into 11 different groups on the basis of their tone and style of writing.
1. The Funny One
This blogger has a very good sense of humor, and he always manages to make you laugh, even if he is writing on the most boring topics. He uses his wit to add a little bit of humor in each post. These type of bloggers are very difficult to find, but you can see a shade of this in every blogger.
2. The Friendly Guy
The guys we all like, the one’s who are true friends. These bloggers have a unique quality, that they promote their friends along with their work. They are amiable, they are helpful and very kind. Because of these type of people, the blogging community is surviving. Otherwise there would not have been a community, just a bunch of bloggers posting and promoting themselves.
3. The Angry Bunch
Bloggers whom you don’t like very much. These bloggers are not happy with what’s going around them. They just happen to have a problem with everything. They are short tempered and in get into bad mood very easily. Their content is full of caustic comments and allegations.
4. The Highly Opinionated
People don’t like other people who are very frank. The Highly Opinionated ones are guys that blog straight from their heart. They are not very diplomatic and they don’t care what others think about them and you will not want to meet them in the dark alley. The best quality about them is that they are very genuine and are not influenced by others.
5. The Humble One
This type of bloggers are a very rare find. These are down to earth human beings, who will interact with anybody whether big or small, even if they are very popular in the online world.
6. Crazy for Money
Most of bloggers are there just for making money. There are a few like Shoemoney and John Chow that know how to do it. But the rest just forget about the main idea behind blogging and start their pursuit of grabbing as much money as they could, even if their reputation is at stake. These bloggers can be really annoying, if they become very greedy.
7. The Lazy Pigs
This is class of bloggers is looked down upon. Why should everyone write a posts a day or 3 posts per week? This is the question they usually ask. They don’t write a lot, they are very unproductive and are surrounded by a number of distractions. Many bloggers pass through this phase in their early days of blogging, where they don’t want to blog anymore and some of them quit blogging because they are very lazy to do it.
8. The Social Media Bug
The socialites, the ones that spend most of their time in social networking sites. These bloggers don’t blog much, i.e. they prefer quality over quantity. They know the art of marketing their articles. They promote their articles in a way which is not usually perceived as self promotion or spam. These are the guys, who are usually topping the charts.
9. The Conversationalist
The talkative people in the blogger community. These people have an inherent urge to comment and start a conversation with others. Whenever you see a threaded comment, you will always find a conversationalist there. I personally like these bloggers, because they are very engaging and they also give you positive feedback, which can help you grow.
10. The Perfectionists
Everybody wants to be perfect in what they do. But not all are able to actually implement that. A few of them are really good and have a good command over their writing. These are workaholics who put their day and night in blogging. And they don’t just make posts but actual pieces of art.
11. Copy Cats
The most hated people in the blogosphere. People with little or no conscience, cheat or i say copy from other people’s blog and then publish it without giving credit to original content provider. These are masters of copyright infringement.
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February 2, 2010 - 6:13 pm
I guess am the friendly guy. which one is yours?
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February 8, 2010 - 12:09 am
I think I would be a mixture of 2 and 8. But actually I have shades of 7 and 9
February 2, 2010 - 6:28 pm
7. The Lazy Pigs
and “7″ said to be my lucky number.
February 2, 2010 - 7:12 pm
Um, friendly? I can be a conversationalist and opinionated, too. At least that’s what I think. lol.
great post.
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February 2, 2010 - 7:13 pm
Where’s the “Who gives a flying fuck about blogging guy?” Oh wait thats the lazy guy… apparently feeling like all bloggers should be murdered in their sleep for the betterment of mankind is being lazy.
February 2, 2010 - 7:25 pm
Great post! I I have a small piece of alot of these blogger types. I can be witty, friendly, opinionated (but not annoyingly so). I love social networking to promote my blog but haven’t mastered it yet. I’m just fun & so is my blog!
February 2, 2010 - 7:50 pm
Awesome post! I’d have to say I’m a hybrid blogger, Mostly #2 with a bit of #1 and #3. Once in very great while, I’ll throw in a #4 if I’m passionate enough about the topic.
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February 2, 2010 - 8:55 pm
Good post. Thanks for sharing.
I wounder what the Blogging version of this is: Old skiers never die – they just go down hill. #pun
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February 2, 2010 - 9:35 pm
1. The Funny One – I have seen many, may be I am saying this because whenever I stumbled upon some one from this category, I just kept on reading their blog.
6. Crazy for Money – Seen a hell lot of them, they never produce anything readable enough.
7. The Lazy Pigs – Again seen a lot, no interest in blogging any more.
10. The Perfectionists – I know one, my one of the best friends, Hitesh. I have actually seen him editing his article on paper at his home before posting it. He blogs at: http://unturnedpages-hitesh.blogspot.com/
Finally,
8. The Social Media Bug – This is may be what I can be categorized into.
PS: My blog is currently not in working condition, will try to get it up & running as soon as possible. BTW the link is http://techglider.com/kartik/blog
February 2, 2010 - 9:58 pm
I think I come under The Lazy Pigs category :p
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February 3, 2010 - 5:43 am
I’m the funny and friendly one, but also a lazy one… hahaha
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February 3, 2010 - 11:22 am
i’m a blogger! nyehehe…
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February 3, 2010 - 12:48 pm
The Friendly one, though I’m slowly going down the Lazy one path … haha!
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February 3, 2010 - 1:02 pm
I guess I’m a mix of the funny, friendly, and perfectionist one. Oh those copy cats are so annoying! Sometimes they even rank better than you do!
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February 3, 2010 - 7:22 pm
oh dear i’m a mixture but mostly #7 lazy pig ha ha ha.
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February 3, 2010 - 7:25 pm
i Pick Number 10 (with modesty) , nice post
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February 3, 2010 - 7:53 pm
This article hits all the types of blogger quite well. I have seen and read blogs from each of these types.
As for me,my style is I tend to be a mixture of 2 and very small amount of number 7. Don’t get me wrong, I love blogging, but I do get side tracked and have a busy real life that can get in the way of posting everyday. I try and post almost every day except for weekends. Thats my real life and family time. But that is also research for blog posting for the next week as well. When I am not posting I spend a lot of my time promoting my work and other blogger’s work that I read as well.
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February 3, 2010 - 8:17 pm
I think you are not lazy. Posting everyday is a really good frequency. I think managing work and blogging along with it is really difficult. You are doing a good job.
February 3, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Well, just a beginner.But i would like to choose “the highly Opinionated” for myself!!:)
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February 3, 2010 - 8:33 pm
Wondering where to place myself.. Lazy perhaps?

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February 3, 2010 - 8:42 pm
good post!! keep blogging
February 4, 2010 - 2:21 am
I’m new to blogging and twitter so I’ve made a few errors here and there, but with articles like this, I’m learning. Old bloggers never die, they just go off topic…
February 8, 2010 - 12:12 am
That;s a very good thought, They never die
. And I think you should try and try and you will succeed.
February 4, 2010 - 5:59 am
me i would say
6 , 8 , and 11…hahaha..but ive managed to change my habit of doing the 11th habit, i wanted my blogs to earn more money, rather than care to people on my blogs whom read, i only received 2 post of replies in my comments..=)
February 4, 2010 - 10:19 am
OMG! Great Blog! So true, I was laughing at these. I think I’m a merge between 1,2,4 and probably a little 6. Sooner or later it’s got to pay off!
February 4, 2010 - 11:53 am
Gauti dude!! U’ve come a long way in blogosphere…keep blogging…Liked this post very much.
February 4, 2010 - 11:54 am
And this moderation feature sucks!!
February 8, 2010 - 12:14 am
The moderation is only for controlling the spam
February 4, 2010 - 12:07 pm
Fantastic post. I recognise myself in a few, though these 2 traits are stark — the Angry one, and the Perfectionist (Can’t say my blog is a work or art, but I work on it day and night!).
Would you don’t mind it if I shared this post on my blog? Do let me know. Thanks!
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February 4, 2010 - 12:08 pm
I meant:
Would you mind it if I shared this post on my blog? Do let me know. Thanks!
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February 4, 2010 - 12:33 pm
Juanita, you can always share this post on your blog. You can link to it and write about which type of blogger you are.
February 5, 2010 - 12:05 am
I guess I would be a mixture of the conversationalist,the friendly guy and the opinionated guy
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February 5, 2010 - 12:11 pm
I don’t fit in well on this list, lol
I’m a mix of everything except angry and copycat.
Lately I’ve been really lazy though, I don’t see why that is looked down upon so harshly though.
I like to keep my content original and passionate, I don’t think I could write multiple posts per day like that.
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February 5, 2010 - 12:30 pm
I agree wid u, We may have prior engagements. But the competition is such, that we have to be regular.
And I think multiple posts per day is not even wise. Better is to market the posts.
February 6, 2010 - 7:05 am
Yes, my thoughts exactly!
I actually steer away from sites with too many daily posts. I like quality over quantity.
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February 8, 2010 - 12:17 am
I agree, I believe even if you write one post, it should be complete in all respects. There is no need to write, just for the sake of it.
February 6, 2010 - 5:06 am
I believe I am left out of this, as I am
“In love with food art” (for a better word)
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February 7, 2010 - 8:45 am
The Transparent,
I don’t have anything to hide and I want my personality to come through, I’ve found I have the must fun when I’m writing off the cuff.
I like this post and am glad I subscribe.
February 12, 2010 - 5:39 pm
The Transparent would have been a good type. The ones that put their personality into their blogs. this would be really good blog, because it will be impersonal and so readers will feel more connected to it.
February 7, 2010 - 11:05 am
I’m almost all of those types and proud to be #4 lol
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February 8, 2010 - 8:58 am
Can I be a mix between #8 and #9?
Eh?
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February 11, 2010 - 6:09 pm
I hope I am the friendly and sometimes funny blogger. I might argue, though, that there is another blogger … the Spread Too Thin blogger … who tries to blog about too many things on too many sites. As an author, trying to crank out another book, blogging often has to take a back seat because there are too many irons in the fire. But boy, blogging is fun …
February 11, 2010 - 6:13 pm
Actually, now that I think about it, we’re probably each some combination of the 11 types of bloggers I know that I’m sometimes (perhaps rarely) the Humble blogger who thinks, “Why is someone going to want to read what I have to say?” And other times (too often perhaps) I’m the Highly Opinionated Blogger who gets on his soapbox and refuses to step down. “All right, now easy … just drop the blog and no one gets hurt …”
February 11, 2010 - 9:54 pm
And there is the inspirational one – who is trying to make the world a better place, and touch one heart at a time!
Olga Rasmussen
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February 12, 2010 - 12:18 pm
i think im a friendly blogger..
wat do u think ?????
March 2, 2010 - 6:37 pm
I am considered in no. 11 sometimes but I link back the post to the original authors.
Last time I used to copy the full post and just make a new entry . . . but nowadays I review the whole post and post it back in my own native language (a little bit mixed up with English though). And if I feel like there is one or two points missing or I feel is necessary, I include it up in the post.
I am a lil of No 2, No 6, try to be No 10. I think.
I think. Hehe
This is a real good entry. Really.
Is it okay if I post it back in my blog ?
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March 7, 2010 - 12:09 pm
I just started blogging now .i think i am bit of all these ! gud post

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March 9, 2010 - 3:41 am
As I’m new to the blog world, I’d have to say Im a cross of the friendly/conversationist because I love dialogue mixed with the lazy. I have yet to figure out how to blog actively. This article is a keeper. It actually answered a question I had on whether there was a certain voice a person shoud blog in
March 10, 2010 - 1:50 pm
I don’t think I fit any of those types… and especially not the the Copy Cat! The Friendly Guy sounds like me the most though I think I’m too shy to be friendly – but I’m too new to blogging to be much of anything!
Thanks for the post. This makes good inspiration for a post of my own.
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