meformer

[ mee-fawr-mer ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a person who routinely uses social media to post messages that are mostly or entirely about themselves:

   The last thing I want to do is join a social network of self-involved meformers and risk becoming one of them.

Word History and Origins

Origin of meformer¹

Coined in 2009 by U.S. researchers Mor Naaman, Jeffrey Boase, and Chih-Hui Lai; me ( def ) + (in)former ( def )

Example Sentences

Are you an informer or a meformer?

From Time

The Rutgers team ended up creating the term “meformer” after analyzing data from a sampling of Twitter accounts.

From Time

How can you tell which cluster you fall into—informer or meformer?

From Time

Aim to boost your information sharing on social media so that you more closely align with the informer cluster rather than the meformer cluster.

From Time

According to the report: “Informational content attracts new followers with a relative impact that is roughly 30 times higher than the impact of ‘meformer’ content, which deters growth.”

From Inc