Facebook
• lots of privacy (private stuff shouldn't be on the web)
• clunky photo uploads
• excessive loads of self-promotion
• lots of approval junkies
• fun (albeit clunky) apps
• no "Dave and Aun Jemima and are now friends," "Dave updated his profile to like cheese," "Pia Zadora is now following Dave" ... just agonizing
...
Twitter (I'm seligmansdog)
• brief updates, breaking news sometimes
• no babbling
• occasional stupid updates
• easy to turn on and off tweets
• fun search capability
• no pics of others' children
• trivial registration
• all kinds of apps (twitterlocal.net, thanks Bob)
• Tweets from Science Friday, https://twitter.com/scifri are pretty cool
• ...
Your preference?
4 comments:
I use Twitter to update my Facebook status... so I guess both?
These days I'm gravitating more toward Flickr.
Each one has an advantage that keeps me using them in spite of how annoying they can be. With Facebook, I feel I am really reconnecting with some people I want to. With Twitter, I can follow some people who make me laugh. I find Facebook more annoying, but the payoff is bigger :)
Yeah, I get hooked on Facebook too sometimes, I even connected with a friend from decades ago. But the exchange kind went two volleys: kids? yeah ... but divorce, oh, I'm in England now, wow, see ya, ... End.
Flickr beats all hands down, most friendly community on the web.
Ooh! Cool. I'm following @scifri now.
Post a Comment