I came across this Typealyzer web site which purports to assess a blogger’s personality type based purely on the written word. I have 3 active blogs and I apparently manage to write using a different personality type on each blog:
- This blog — my personal technical blog — pegs me as “INTJ – The Scientists”.
- My Gaming Pathology blog — where I write about usually obscure video games — marks me as “ESTP – The Doers”.
- My corporate blog — where I speak in fairly careful terms about what I do at my day job — earns me the distinction of “ENTJ – The Executives”.
I suppose all of those make sense. Each blog is written with a slightly different tone. This is in keeping with the website’s explanation that “This is about exploring social roles (or personas) that are expected to be different in different situations.” I think it’s frustrating that I have to write my corporate blog in an executive, often vacuous tone (and I know it frustrates the readers to no end as well); I would much prefer if it could lean toward “The Scientists” end of the personality inventory. Alas, it is not to be.
I popped in a bunch of blogs I read but they all seem to learn toward certain areas of the brain chart. According to that chart, I don’t seem to read any blogs by people heavy in the sensing or feeling departments. I have a feeling that I wouldn’t be able to tolerate it. On a hunch, I plugged in the blog produced by the top Google search for “angsty teenager blog” — Teen Angst Poetry. That scores as “ISFP – The Artists”. Sure enough, I don’t think I would enjoy reading that blog.