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Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Teasastips — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:03:27 -0000

I enjoy Facebook more than Twitter because of the level of engagement. Sometimes on Twitter, it feels like you are throwing your update up on a wall hoping it sticks. Starts to remind me of Digg. However, Facebook is actually a real social community where people befriend you based on some level of similarity.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

youtube unblock — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:07:13 -0000

nice post Robert. For me i like Facebook more than Twitter. More fun on facebook.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Grace Rachmany — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:17:04 -0000

If you think it's tough on you to read what all Miryam's friends are doing, you ought to see what it's like for HER, seeing what all YOUR friends are doing. ;-)

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

timaumell — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:04:26 -0000

hopefully facebook will learn what customer service is, I made an account aug 09 have gotten 38 emails to confirm friends ,but facebook says i dont have an account.send more emails than have in year asking for help , they have no phone service ,and they have computer generated responces, hopefully twitter actually has (live people) or actually respond to those who need there help

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Sandra — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:17:04 -0000

I really don't care about the "look" of facebook. I just wish it would work. For several days I have either been unable to get on because my "account is unvailable due to site maintenance" or I do get logged in only to find they have completely erased my entire friend list so I can't look at their profiles or contact them. I tried just sending a message, but got kicked off. Whatever they have done it isn't an improvement.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

J. Paul Duplantis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:03:24 -0000

This is very good analysis. I had given up on Twitter for the last 2 months and invested more time into Facebook. I am thinking about giving Twitter another try though.

The "Noise" is certainly a problem for me. It is just that so many people have very little to say. But I think I have to put this onto myself. I am probably not following or friending the right people. Nor am I putting in the time to give back.

Funny how the internet works very similar to relationships.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Shirley Corrales — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:53:14 -0000

I love fb, I have connected with even people I forgot about and I am glad I am hearing from
how their lives are now.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

walidmrealtor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:06:26 -0000

I have to agree. With some good forethought, the list feature is becoming a powerful tool in twitter.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Zoë Dawes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:45:37 -0000

Thanks forthis - I asked my Followers onTwitter if I should get a FB account and s/one sent me a link to this post. It's helped clarify a couple of things - and tells me I don't need Facebook as yet!
Cheers - Zoe

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

plainspace — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:32:06 -0000

"That is a HUGE advantage for controlling noise and for keeping yourself productive. Especially after you get Twitter’s new lists feature, which lets you split your contacts up into separate pages (I have a page of just Venture Capitalists, for instance, which is a completely different feed from my page of tech journalists)."

do i get to split up my contacts too? when am i going to get lists?

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Otto — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:32:23 -0000

I'm with Sam on this. You don't "Follow" people on Facebook. You're either a friend with them or you're not.

- If I have not met you in real life, then you are not my friend on Facebook.
- If we have not shared a beer (or equivalent) together, then you are not my friend on Facebook.
- If you send me a friend request, then I don't care who you are, if these criteria don't apply, I hit the "Ignore" button.

I don't know *anybody* who behaves any differently, and if I did, I probably wouldn't be their friend on Facebook.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

manielse — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:52:56 -0000

Sorry, Ad-Block Plus (a Firefox extension) does this for pretty much all my sites. That should cover your needs and then some...

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

socialsammy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:34:07 -0000

Just a thought...

I think this is where (no offence) you generation of geek differs to mine...as a young guy (early 20's) my generation of "friends" have used Facebook primarily as a tool to keep in touch with people who they care about.

Yes information sharing is a part of it, but it doesn't matter what info you're sharing, because I care about you and what's going on in your life and that's why I follow you.

Facebook has lists to help filter the clutter, I'd prefer to use them rather than disconnecting myself from people who I care about.

Perhaps you use Facebook in a completely different way than I do...I'd be fascinated to hear your thoughts.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

stevejd — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:03:33 -0000

Anyone ever looked at ylert.com? Ylert has social networking, micro/macro blogging, photo and video sharing, follow me messaging, profile designs, profile tunes jukebox player, events calendar, seek answer, recommend a product, journals, video conferencing with skype, chat rooms, address book, send emails from address book, classifieds, links to your favorite sites, etc. etc. There is alos a business version where you can feature yout top employees, vendors and customers. I had created this amazing network to keep up with my kids and recently made it available to every one. Ylert is combines all the features and more of other traditional sites, but has a new interesting angle to it. It is more designed to be your home page. Give it a try. Let me know what you think.....there is enough room for more than a handful of social networking sites. It is important for people to have a choice to be different, I think.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Sandy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:48:40 -0000

If you click hide to the left of the post it will hide the games from you seeing them. Just don't hide the person just the game.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Meshell1 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:41:13 -0000

I WANT TO SEE IT ALL LIKE BEFORE YOU MADE THE CHANGE - IT WAS MORE INTERACTIVE.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

twitter backgrounds — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:19:37 -0000

Seems to make sense. I think you described it perfectly, Facebook is still a place for mostly friends, whereas Twitter you follow a general crowd you want to follow. You can always still follow friends on Twitter but it's at a different level I think.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Click de Vacanta — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:12:20 -0000

Great article :)...

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Ryan Stanley — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:38:04 -0000

I think you're being a bit misleading. In either the FB News Feed or Live Feed I only see *original* posts from my friends. I do see comments by their friends, which is kind of the point of social networking: discovering new people. For me, scrolling past the comments isn't a big deal, and is preferred over Twitter where you only catch pieces of conversations.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Ron Morrison — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:32:54 -0000

Nice work Robert - I think that your simplified version of "what you get" between Facebook and Twitter is a delineation long over due. I have a question however. Can Facebooks news feed method be a benefit to businesses that are looking to extend their reach? From a marketing perspective - recognizing that you and I may not want to be marketed to, would it help businesses to occasionally get on my home page because a "friend" or even a friend of a friend had something positive to say and then I saw it?

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Michael Slattery — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:32:33 -0000

Yes, if you work at it hard enough you can build up a following on twitter - and after weeding out all of the spam accounts and people following you that have nothing in common, you might even get some satisfying interaction. But most newcomers just fail at it. Look at the statistics. The overwhelming majority of Twitter subscribers have less than 10 followers and almost never tweet.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Michael Davies — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:43:07 -0000

One of the first things I did after leaving college was get rid of pretty much anybody I wouldn't really see again, or didn't even know well, from Facebook. I must have removed about 100+ people from it, and I'm so glad I did - it makes the whole thing a little bit more manageable, although Twitter is still better for displaying things you WANT to see.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

manielse — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:55:01 -0000

There are some great Greasemonkey scripts to do this. Facebook Purity comes to mind; get rid of Ads, Game, Quizzes, etc. I does require a few tweaks if it blocks something you want though.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

Brent Logan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:42:44 -0000

You can hide applications, including quizzes. I've blocked hundreds: http://blogan.net/blog/2009...

Scoble's right: you do need to hide or unsubscribe from some friends--they're just noise. I'm hoping FB adds the ability to hide specific friends of a friend.

If you haven't tried FB for a while, give it another try. It's not your father's FB.

Re: The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook

bobboynton — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:42:32 -0000

They do not want users to have a choice. Many social networks let you choose between only direct friends and the whole world, with steps in between, on every message. Facebook wants to force the noise so they can sell it. On every count, except population size, there are better social networks than Facebook. I do not know why one would want to use it. Well, I guess there is the size, but that is noise.