BklynBabe said:

I like Facebook for connecting with people long distance. And I'm finding it helping with compiling helpful pages on a variety of subjects.

I don't get Twitter at all, but I think it got overcelebratized!

To me Facebook functions just like Twitter. You updated as you choose. Short message. links.

SoulAlive said:

PDogz said:

I recently reconnected with a very dear friend (through Facebook) that I lost contact with 18 years ago. Although we're each on opposite sides of the country now, we're currently making plans to spend some time together this Summer. So I appreciate FB for this.

That's what I love most about Facebook: reconnecting with old friends.Everyone's on Facebook these days and I was able to find three friends that I went to elementary school with it's cool having these people back in my life.

Maybe a year or so ago, I found a childhood neighbor/frenemy whom I hadn't seen or heard from since 1979. Before his family moved away, I had been horribly mean to him, and I'd felt some guilt for all those years. It felt like such a blessing to be able to reconnect and apologize.

Lammastide said:

SoulAlive said:

That's what I love most about Facebook: reconnecting with old friends.Everyone's on Facebook these days and I was able to find three friends that I went to elementary school with it's cool having these people back in my life.

Maybe a year or so ago, I found a childhood neighbor/frenemy whom I hadn't seen or heard from since 1979. Before his family moved away, I had been horribly mean to him, and I'd felt some guilt for all those years. It felt like such a blessing to be able to reconnect and apologize.

I'm not on Facebook, and if I have my choice I won't get on it anytime soon. Unlike a lot of people who use Facebook, I have little to no interest in looking up my past friends or girlfriends. I like to keep most of my past in the past.

As for Twitter, while most people use it for stupid reasons, it is actually quite good as a business tool for quick networking. Having said that, I don't use Twitter all that often either. But I can claim to be an early adopter of that service. I signed up for Twitter in October 2007, looked around and fiddled with it for about 15 mnutes, and did not log on again for a year and a half.

Lammastide said:

SoulAlive said:

That's what I love most about Facebook: reconnecting with old friends.Everyone's on Facebook these days and I was able to find three friends that I went to elementary school with it's cool having these people back in my life.

Maybe a year or so ago, I found a childhood neighbor/frenemy whom I hadn't seen or heard from since 1979. Before his family moved away, I had been horribly mean to him, and I'd felt some guilt for all those years. It felt like such a blessing to be able to reconnect and apologize.

It's a trip communicating with people who "knew you back then" I hadn't talked to these people since 1982! LOL,the world has really changed alot since then.I love to reminisce about the past.

PositivityNYC said:

Twitter is best for professional/business reasons; Facebook for personal or business ones

the problem with facebook is there are so many security issues for personal accounts; hackers are always tricking ppl into clicking on stuff

Yes i agree with you people commonly use FB for personal and twitter for professional reasons..

@OP: Facebook has more features than that! #technology

I prefer the org. Don't openly have to choose who is my friend and who's not...

SoulAlive said:

I love to reminisce about the past.

Yeah , me too.

I hate them both. A complete waste of time.

I only facebook with a select group of inner friends/relatives who I actually talk with and communicate with on a regular basis. It helps to keep in touch with eachother in this crazy busy day. I love seeing current pictures of my nieces/nephews/friendskids.

Do I narrate every moment of my day, no. Do I brag on my oldest daughter who is graduating with honors from high school in June, and attending California Polytechnic University in the Fall, yes!

I love facebook. It's entertaining, it keeps me in touch with people I don't often see, it's a nice way to find out more about people I don't know that much about, I love sharing music, pictures etc...

Twitter... I just don't get it. I tried it.. but it seems very celeb-based. I'm really not that interested in celebs.

Lisa10 said:

I love facebook. It's entertaining, it keeps me in touch with people I don't often see, it's a nice way to find out more about people I don't know that much about, I love sharing music, pictures etc...

Twitter... I just don't get it. I tried it.. but it seems very celeb-based. I'm really not that interested in celebs.

ditto on the twitter!!

I love both.

Facebook is, like someone said upthread, more like a personal message board for me. I post on a range of topics from the serious to the mundane and silly. A large group of my friends actually migrated from a message board to Facebook a few years ago and we've become really tight. I've also made some great friends through other friends on Facebook.

Twitter, to me, you get out of it what you put into it. I use it primarily for political and world news, I only follow a couple celebs. I look at it as a big group conversation. Sometimes I jump in, other times I just sit back and listen. The biggest thing with Twitter though is who you follow. I'm constantly editing who I follow. It's trial and error. Some people I followed fully expecting to be enthralled by their feed only to be disappointed and others who I followed on a whim have become "friends".

Lisa10 said:

I love facebook. It's entertaining, it keeps me in touch with people I don't often see, it's a nice way to find out more about people I don't know that much about, I love sharing music, pictures etc...

Twitter... I just don't get it. I tried it.. but it seems very celeb-based. I'm really not that interested in celebs.

I agree.I view Twitter as something for celebrities to keep their fans updated on their latest activities,thoughts,opinions,etc.I don't do Twitter for that reason alone.I guess I'm getting old (lol) because I'm not very interested in the daily happenings of a famous person.

PDogz said:

Militant said:

...Facebook makes me hate the people I know in real life...

There's a lot of truth to that. Certain family members have turned me completely OFF with some of their rhetoric on FB.

I only have about 8 family members on there....and I'm considering unfriending about 4 of them right now

Timmy84 said:

Twitter was getting ridiculous with its beta at the end. When Twitter first came to be, it was easy to type. Then the thought of talking about stuff on there got boring.

They need to up the numbers of characters. Maybe from 140 to 170 to 200

I can't be bothered with tweeting... I'm on "who gives a fuck" status on Twitter, but I enjoy FB from time to time.

bboy87 said:

Timmy84 said:

Twitter was getting ridiculous with its beta at the end. When Twitter first came to be, it was easy to type. Then the thought of talking about stuff on there got boring.

They need to up the numbers of characters. Maybe from 140 to 170 to 200

Or just make it plain unlimited lol

The commercial/marketing aspects of both Facebook and Twitter (like probably other social networks) [i.e. friends promoting movies, shows, brands of their latest purchases on FB, the minute-by-minute updates on new products and releases by the business community on Twitter, etc] - have turned me off both services completely.

Not that I don't understand all the demands and benefits of business, but I just don't want to mix friends&family & business. I guess you can't keep those aspects completely out of personal relationships these days. But I feel the online social networks exploit these potential monetary benefits to abusive levels.

I think it's called 'viral marketing'.

Yuk!

I just love the Org...

strmn said:

I'd like to read some explanations of why people use facebook and twitter. I really don't get it. Why do people post public messages informing others about what they're doing minute-to-minute? And why do people who use these media want to know this stuff about others?

Because they've been tricked into believing it helps, is cool, necessary, etc. etc. etc.