Comments on: Twitter or Facebook? http://gorey.com.au/twitter-or-facebook Random thoughts and observations Wed, 23 May 2012 17:46:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kristine Lowe http://gorey.com.au/twitter-or-facebook/comment-page-1#comment-54375 Kristine Lowe Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:19:40 +0000 http://gorey.com.au/?p=4182#comment-54375 I fully agree with what you say on Twitter vs Facebook in this post. If I'd been forced to choose, I'd go for Twitter, but, perhaps ironically, I find that Twitter has caused me to spend more time on Facebook as well. In the beginning I never took much to FB, but because it's part of my job to keep track of what's happening on the social web I try to be present in the key networks and try out as many sites as I can. But the more time I spend on Twitter the more I find that it's nice to have a place I can say things I can't say on Twitter or any of my blogs. There are certainly limits to what I'd post to Facebook too, but it feels at least semi-private - I'm more personal on Facebook than on other sites, partly due to having more personal acquiantances there. Like you, broadly speaking, I have my professional contacts on Twitter and my personal ones on Facebook. It's not 100% precise though because many of my professional contacts are also friends - I wouldn't follow my sister on Twitter, but I'd certainly follow a lot of my friends who're working in related areas of business - and I do have friends on Facebook I know through my work, and even a few whom I've never met. I'd never add someone I don't "know" as a friend on Facebook, but "knowing" someone has changed with the social web. There are plenty of bloggers I've never met but still feel I "know", usually because we've read each others blogs for some time, whereas if a blogger I had no real sense of who was would add me as a Facebook friend then def. no. It's both strange and wonderful how this business of who you know and don't know has been altered by the web. Recently two high-profile Scandinavian bloggers have died, one in a car accident and another from the cancer she blogged about. The reactions to those deaths are quite something, I certainly felt very sad about the news, and with the young Norwegian blogger who died of cancer the country's media has covered it like she was a celebrity - at least someone a large part of the nation had a relationdship to. Apart from the tragedy in these to events, the reactions they've spurred are truly fascinating.... I fully agree with what you say on Twitter vs Facebook in this post. If I’d been forced to choose, I’d go for Twitter, but, perhaps ironically, I find that Twitter has caused me to spend more time on Facebook as well. In the beginning I never took much to FB, but because it’s part of my job to keep track of what’s happening on the social web I try to be present in the key networks and try out as many sites as I can.

But the more time I spend on Twitter the more I find that it’s nice to have a place I can say things I can’t say on Twitter or any of my blogs. There are certainly limits to what I’d post to Facebook too, but it feels at least semi-private – I’m more personal on Facebook than on other sites, partly due to having more personal acquiantances there.

Like you, broadly speaking, I have my professional contacts on Twitter and my personal ones on Facebook. It’s not 100% precise though because many of my professional contacts are also friends – I wouldn’t follow my sister on Twitter, but I’d certainly follow a lot of my friends who’re working in related areas of business – and I do have friends on Facebook I know through my work, and even a few whom I’ve never met. I’d never add someone I don’t “know” as a friend on Facebook, but “knowing” someone has changed with the social web.

There are plenty of bloggers I’ve never met but still feel I “know”, usually because we’ve read each others blogs for some time, whereas if a blogger I had no real sense of who was would add me as a Facebook friend then def. no. It’s both strange and wonderful how this business of who you know and don’t know has been altered by the web.

Recently two high-profile Scandinavian bloggers have died, one in a car accident and another from the cancer she blogged about. The reactions to those deaths are quite something, I certainly felt very sad about the news, and with the young Norwegian blogger who died of cancer the country’s media has covered it like she was a celebrity – at least someone a large part of the nation had a relationdship to. Apart from the tragedy in these to events, the reactions they’ve spurred are truly fascinating….

]]> By: Dina http://gorey.com.au/twitter-or-facebook/comment-page-1#comment-54205 Dina Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:22:17 +0000 http://gorey.com.au/?p=4182#comment-54205 I have Twitter and Facebook accounts. I very rarely go to Twitter anymore. I much prefer Facebook. I feel with Twitter people are pretty much talking to themselves. I feel people are shouting out various things, and sometimes it seems like no one is really listening to each other. Then when you do get a conversation, I find it hard to follow. I would read people's updates, and I felt it was tedious trying to find what they had been responding to. I like Facebook because it seems to have a more community atmosphere. I especially like it now...where you can respond to people's updates. I love the conversations that take place. I have Twitter and Facebook accounts. I very rarely go to Twitter anymore. I much prefer Facebook. I feel with Twitter people are pretty much talking to themselves. I feel people are shouting out various things, and sometimes it seems like no one is really listening to each other. Then when you do get a conversation, I find it hard to follow. I would read people’s updates, and I felt it was tedious trying to find what they had been responding to.

I like Facebook because it seems to have a more community atmosphere. I especially like it now…where you can respond to people’s updates. I love the conversations that take place.

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