On Facebook, there are many little applications one can add. I don’t add most of them, as they seem to clutter up the page. I did, however, add the “MyType” app, which allows you to take a short version of the Myers-Briggs personality test, and compare your score to your friends.
I’m a fairly consistent ENFP, though in my younger years, I was an ENFJ. When I’m feeling a bit low, I think I lean towards being an INFP. I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs test many times, clearly!
The studies say that ENFPs are only 2-3% of the population — but in the past few weeks, it’s turned out that about half of my friends on Facebook who take the test are also ENFPs. Some of these folks are those whom I “invited” to take the test, so they may have been influenced by my type — but it’s relatively difficult to “game” the test to control an outcome. The only possible conclusion, other than random coincidence, is that “like attracts like”, at least in friendship. It’s an interesting thing.
My wife is a strong ESTP, and we work very well together. We’re a very good combination at parties, and no doubt, we will someday be very entertaining (if not exhausting) parents for our children.
So, gentle readers, what’s your type? If you don’t know it, there are many some Myers-Briggs tests available online, but the real test — the most reliable one — is proprietary and tends to cost around $29. Or you can add Facebook and the MyType app.
I am almost always an INFJ. On other occasions, I am an INTJ.
And now, back to the woodwork…
I’m an ENTP, although as I work longer in the librarian prfession, I am shifting towards an ENTJ.
and as you can see, I am a crap typist/spell checker!
ENTJ, like Margaret Thatcher and Captain Picard. And I’m not even kidding!
INFJ here. Every time.
INTJ, though the last two letters waffle sometimes.
a happy INFP here, although i’m informed that i tend to come across in social settings as strongly ENFP (particularly in england - doubtless attributable to my easily excitable and aggressively friendly american demeanour…!)
You realize the MBTI is, scientifically speaking, utter tosh, right? It basically doesn’t actually do anything it’s supposed to do.
That said, I’m an INFP and so’s my wife. Funny, huh?
I seem to switch between INTP and INTJ depending on my mood. That, or I’m some kind of hybrid. Or I take too many online tests. One of those, anyway.
INFJ, with a very occasional slip on the F. :)
ISTP - I was only test once using the real test.
ENFJ here. And I added the facebook app after seeing yours.
Someone made me take that test a couple years back, I am somewhere tween an INTJ and INFJ I think it is. But it’s awful oversimplistic, that’s what I recall.
Well, I just added MyType on Facebook because of your suggestion, and I am an ENFP too! Maybe that’s why I’ve loved all four of your classes I took! Or maybe it’s all those pink shirts you wear…;-0
INFP or ENFP, depending on how the questions are worded and what type of crowd I’m with.
ESTJ.
I am one of maybe three female ESTJs ever, heh.
Pretty consistently an INTJ. Although I’ve never taken the real test, just various free online ones.
I’m an INFP and an ENFP, although I haven’t taken it in awhile. Funny, I never saw myself as an introvert, although I was often labeled as shy by others. These people didn’t know me though as they were too self-absorbed. I dislike the (negative) label that “introvert” tends to create. For me it really depends on the people that I’m around and how they respond to me. The “extroverts,” that I’ve been around like being in the spotlight and seem to resent anyone else sharing equally–someone who isn’t as loud, competitive or aggressive, might rather just want to avoid all the ugly competition and stay behind the scenes. It isn’t that they don’t desire being social. There’s a huge difference between being social with compatible people who respond appropriately to you and being around self-absorbed, draining people. I’m probably shy with the latter because they’re endless self-prattle wears on one and is boring, although I don’t always say what I feel.
Hugo, has this thing ever been validated in any way? I’m with Luis: I know my type but don’t see how it says anything useful or interesting about me–especially since I’ve know several people who seem very different from me yet say they too are INTJ. Like astrology, MBTI flatters the customer by saying his or her profile depicts a really delightful, salt of the earth person.
What I appreciate most about MBTI is that it points out less my virtues than the areas where I need to do more work. I am sloppy when it comes to detail, easily distracted and bored — classic ENFP negative traits. Being reminded of what one needs to change (or at least monitor) is always useful.
INTP here, though it is occasionally closer to INFP on certain days. Things seem to have worked themselves out such that I usually become friends with Exxx types (they often initiate contact/conversation and it goes from there), and my past girlfriends have most often been more in the direction ESxx, even though that doesn’t seem to work out well usually (come to think of it, that never worked out well).
This ultimately turns into a problem in most cases, since I often have the displeasure of befriending ExxJs who don’t appreciate feminism and the associated ideas (of course I usually don’t find out about that right at the start). Thus it has been (in my experience) the ExxJ group who feels the need to make comments of the nature “Hey, see the girl over there with the short skirt? She totally wants to get laid, go talk to her.” /barf (Once again, just in my experience. No offense to any ExxJ folks out there.)
Ultimately I feel most “at home” with other introverts, especially folks of the IxxP type, but due to the dynamic in social situations, I tend to attract extroverts, I guess since I’m a good “story receptacle”, aka, listener. Seriously, I often feel as if people just talk at me because I’m there. It’s not a discussion, the other person just needs to exercise his/her vocal chords, apparently.
INFP. I hear you on the I am sloppy when it comes to detail, easily distracted and bored bit. :) In some circumstances I can flip into ENFP, but it’s not all that common.
My husband, of course, is ESTJ.
Hah, Aphrael! Funny how the NFs like to marry the STs, huh? I see that happen a lot.
Never knew your MBTI type. I’m an INTJ. xo Your cousin
I’ve taken this test many, many times, partly from rooming with a bunch of psych majors in college. When I was younger I tested as INTJ but then I turned into an INFJ, due I think to having my illusions about human decency broken, which made me place more explicit value on compassion. I also once got two points of E instead of one and was horrified. (The one I kept getting was choosing “many friends” over “few friends”–because without any more detail, like “few close friends” vs. “many casual friends,” choosing “few friends” feels like declaring myself a misanthropic loner weirdo. Which I probably am, but there is such a huge stigma on not having friends.) Imagine, me, extroverted. The horror.
Although the other letters have remained consistent, I suspect the N and J are more toward center, because when I saw one test where the traits they are supposed to measure were grouped, I would have chosen half from each side as definitely applicable to me and half as not applicable at all. I have had a similar reaction to descriptions of my alleged type. I hear the E/I measure is by far the most meaningful anyway.
By the way, the way your comment font here makes dashes look like hyphens makes it look as if your commenters are incapable of readable punctuation.
ESTP, just like your wife. It’s a rare man who can handle an ESTP woman. What’s your wife’s sign? She looks like a Leo or an Aries to me!
INFP… N only by a slim margin though
Ever since I came across a reference to Myers Briggs on Jen Lemen’s blog years ago, I have repeatedly taken variations of these tests and always come out ENFP, with the exception of last year after my dad died and i got INFP.
I didnt know ENFPs are considered sloppy when it comes to detail, easily distracted and bored, but that describes me pretty well, too.
Brenda, how interesting. After my Dad died two years ago this month, I too became an “I” for a while, and wrote about it in those exact terms: http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/06/27/an-e-feels-like-an-i-struggling-with-how-to-grieve/
I’m an INTP, although the N, the T and the P are very close to the line, to the point where I actually scored ISFJ on one occasion.
I’m an XNFP - or in other words, I usually come out *precisely* split between E and I answers, and have done most of the time since high school - but being either socially-deprived or overwhelmed (socially or otherwise) will swing me towards E or I respectively.
I think in general as I’ve become older, the other dimensions have become less extreme - when I first took the test, NFP were all almost ALL the way over on that side of the spectrum, and now they’re more middlin’ but still quite clear… though I took it at work once and came out INFJ… I think because I was stuck in a management job with a lot of money responsibility… and it was much easier to keep track of all the money stuff if I started making clear cut decisions instead of just trying to grab the gestalt of it.
I’m an ENTJ (with a very strong E). I work in an office with a bunch of ISTPs and INTPs, which I think is why the office manager had us all take the MBI. I think it’s good for general trends, and once we all knew what we were, the interpersonal friction decreased substantially. For instance, I have one coworker whom I now always e-mail instead of picking up the phone or stopping by her office. Life is a lot smoother since we communicate in a way that is comfortable for her, even if I prefer the other way.
I’m an ENFP too. I think I lean fairly heavily towards INFP at times tho.
I took the test on facebook a few days ago, so I was amused to see you post about it. :)