Ok. I started dabbling in other social media than Facebook a few months ago. Heres my thoughts on Twitter first of all: Ive long been baffled as to why you would have any use for a Twitter account when you have a Facebook account. Having used it, I still am. It seems you dont follow people on Twitter so much as you follow ideas and interests. Theres less scope for personal details or fleshing out details of your real life and the character count forces you to create almost sound bites. The result is you follow the sound bites you like, not the person behind it. Its much more acceptable to follow and be followed by complete strangers for some reason - maybe precisely because from the details you have about someone on Twitter, even close friends have few identifiers so everyone feels a bit strangerish on there. Its good for maybe keeping up with an interest you have by seeing what other people, often strangers, have to say on it. This means you may get some viewpoints (truncated though they may be) you would otherwise miss out on by only having people you actually know on it. Where Facebook feels like a place to interact with people, Twitter feels like a place to broadcast at them. Consequently, it feels a lot noisier, clamorous, and impersonal. Retweeting is rife so my feed is filled with tweets from people Ive never heard of and am not interested in. It seems like Twitters better than Facebook for hearing from brands and celebrities which interests me little. Twitter is increasingly popular with teenagers and Facebook is declining in popularity with them. Is this because theyre less trying to stay in touch with old friends (being often not in a position where they might otherwise lose touch) and are trying to build a contact base, and more so an audience -being more and more used to the notion that everyone deserves to be heard and, moreover, has something worthwhile to say? Where Facebook feels to me like an admittedly full and noisy room of friends having conversations, Twitter feels like a full and noisy room of strangers just shouting heedlessly into the room. Thoughts, anyone?
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:51:07 +0000
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