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What do you call a person who shares a lot of information or files such as: pictures, videos, music, fun things, and so on?

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If a person excessively shares pictures, videos, music, etc. using the social media (as is typically the case), consider these possibilities:

  1. social media addict
  2. facebooker (suggested by Jim in comments)
  3. share junkie (there's a Facebook community that shares viral news that goes by the name)
  4. social media junkie
  5. social networking junkie
  6. according to UD, there's also socialneck, but it doesn't appear to be in wide use (I've never heard it either.)

12 Signs of a Social Media Junkie
1. YOU can't get beyond the main course in a restaurant before you get out your phone and instagram the duck confit. Because, frankly, a romantic meal for two isn't a romantic meal for two unless you have shared it with all your followers.

I think "addict" is more negative, while "junkie" is a more light-hearted word:

junkie: often humorous used about someone who likes doing something very much and who does it a lot

(Macmillan Dictionary)

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