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Friday Fun: The Top 10 Types of Douchebags in Tech and How NOT to be one

By jdupuis on June 24, 2011.

This one's pretty funny, but in a painful way.

I'm sure this one rings true for a lot of people out there.

I like Number 8:

8.) Self-Entitled Social-Media HotShots

Who You Are: Your license plate reads "SCLEXPT". You spend all day teaching computer illiterate people how to create a facebook pages and twitter logins and you mock anyone who doesn't spend three hours a day updating their FB status or tweeting photos of their lunch. You have about as much "expertise" as 24-hour online certified priests, but tout your "knowledge" like a peacock on parade.

What's the Remedy: Make somebody money. I'm offering a $1000 bounty for the first social media expert that has ever made money with their social stream. Here's a tip: if you have more friends online than you do in real life and they're people you've never actually met, become more of an expert at forming real life relationships.

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