Personalities in networks

I posted a tweet on this today and June suggested I elaborate, so here are some seminal ideas on 5 basic personalities that show up and engage in social networks.AddersPeople who are always introducing (adding) new people, new ideas, new questions, and new assets to the networkSubtractorsPeople who are always looking to take something (subtracting) from the network - they are the consumers, stealers, and energy-drainers in the networkDividersPeople who are always aligning people in opposition to others in the network; they keep the network divided into us-them divisions based on either-or thinkingMultipliersPeople who create rhizomic possibilities that can keep multiplying, virally, by virtue of their replicability and value to the networkIntegratorsPeople who create new fusions of possibilities,...

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