Thursday, August 6, 2009
Twitter vs. Facebook
Iight check, so I wake up this morning to check my e-mail and to see what's trending on Twitter, but something went wrong. Twitter, the socially open, status updating site was down. "Okay, cool", I thought to myself as I checked my e-mails, "I'll try again later". Sooo, later arrives, and I still cannot sign onto Twitter. "Okay, cool", I said to myself, "I'll just get on Facebook". But here's the thing about Facebook, it's supposed to be a "social" website, but it has turn into an "all in your business" site. So I refrain from using Facebook unless I have something I want to tell my 700 "friends", (Like I really know who they are or something). To make matters worse, Facebook has become a place of Event promoters and a bunch of other things that clutter my inbox, along with the growing amounts of "Older" people who have joined such as my Mother and Godparents etc. What makes Twitter "better" in my opinion, is that Twitter is 100% a "Social" site, and that's it. You don't have photo albums to maintain, relationship status' that change daily or any of that trivial stuff from High School. Instead, you have a status in which you can use up to 140 characters to get your point across. What you do within that status is completely up to you. Politics, hot albums, what you did in High School are just some random topics to talk about. Some folks actually make extremely valid points that spark heated discussion. But anyway, you can can check Twitter on your free time to catch up, but since Twitter was down I signed onto Facebook. So I decided to express how I felt about Facebook by saying,"I only get on this thing if Twitter isn't working", then BOOM! All this hate mail from Facebook lovers/ Twitter haters. I'm like, "WHOA"! WHO STILL USES FACEBOOK FAITHFULLY?? But anyway, people really had super corny jokes against Twitter, and all kind of stuff...Why?, who knows! I don't see why people are so defensive over a website which is modeled DIRECTLY after Twitter. I honestly found it amusing, as people hit me on the FB chat box complaining lol. But anyway, it is what it is, and some people are always slow to "change". But I promise, one day Facebook will end up just like Myspace, and people will be on the band-wagon extra late, while most of others are on a NEW social site. Let's stay ahead of the curb ya'll! Geez...
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