A person who feasts on the trauma of others and will only show up as a “friend” when others are in crisis. This is typically a means of deflection; if the trauma vulture can pick apart the carcass of someone else’s trauma they can avoid acknowledging their own
“How come the only time I hear from Stacy is when my life is in shambles?”
“Oh duh, it’s because Stacy is a trauma vulture”
Someone that moans about how sad the death of a celebrity is, yet never talks about all of the normal people that die every day. Very trendy to do on Social Media, including Facebook, Tumblr, etc.
Did you read what Amanda wrote about that comediandying? She's such a fame vulture.
A person who tries to invite themselves to an event, no matter how awkward, unwarranted, boring, or lame their attendance will be. If allowed to tag along, they will consume all joy or whimsy and render the carcass of the evening lifeless while they feast with bloody beaks, unaware of their intrusion.
Bob: What are you doing for dinner tonight?
Me: Meeting my dad for dinner to talk about his recent diagnosis....
Bob: So, we should drive together?
Me: Bob, don't be a social vulture
Developer who runs around laying claim to any available servers on the network to dump his shitty code in without permission thereby forcing it into production.
We're out of test servers cause the dev team is a bunch of Server Vultures...