I’ve been tweeting on a BwB profile here, saying things like this:
- People can’t talk about themselves with total honesty, but its harder 2 avoid t truth when you pretend 2B other people http://bit.ly/baPrBB
- “Massive Oil of Olay slick causing fresher, younger-looking fish” http://bit.ly/9PXrqR HT:Lars Walker, http://bit.ly/16Ujpg
- RT: jaredcwilson “The very thing we are allergic to — our helplessness — is what makes prayer work.” — Paul Miller
- RT @bwladd: Spurgeon:The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
- “It will be a Republican year. The question is how much.” Joe Savino #p2
- Read O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” Didn’t get it. Is the incomplete man acting dishonorably b/c he’s incomplete?
So, do you foresee sticking with Twitter?
Facebook’s starting to scare me, but I’m dragging my heels about jumping into Twitter as a replacement. I think I’m hoping you’ll try to talk me out of both. 🙂
Great Scot, Meg! What are you doing on Facebook? Get out while you still can!
Seriously, what scares you about Facebook? And I don’t know that I fit into Twitter culture, but I’m going to work on it, in part to use it for work as well as personally. Neither one are pure marketing tools. They are social tools, community contacts, ways to interact with people who can’t interact with you in other ways.
Here’s what scares me about Facebook: their murky privacy policies and the questionable ethics of its founder. There’s a big ol “quit Facebook” bandwagon that’s picking up speed, and I just might jump on it. Danah Boyd has some enlightening posts on her blog. (www.zephoria.org)
I do enjoy interacting with people on FB, so I’ll probably enjoy it on Twitter, too, once I take the plunge.
I’ll have to read what Ms. Boyd has to say. I don’t have a problem with privacy issues, b/c I try to not put anything on there I don’t want public and I check my settings.
I also think I have wasted too much time there and need to guard myself.
I think Twitter is different. It’s more open, more mobile, and more public. Anyone can find you and follow you on Twitter, but on FB, you have to approve people ahead of time. Following people on Twitter isn’t the same as friending them on FB. I’m following 31 people and companies on T. but only 6 are following me. And you can see what I’ve written by following the link above without signing up.
Right. I’m careful about what I put on FB too, but I can’t control what my friends put on there. And not everybody understands the privacy settings, especially when FB changes them without explaining things very well. Twitter seems a lot more straightforward even if it’s more public than FB seems to be.
Yes, do check out Ms. Boyd’s blog. She has at least a couple of posts about FB now, and she’s not just your everyday blogger. She knows whereof she writes.
I see that. She has remarkable credentials.
Yup. Unlike me.
Twitter me not…. I just don’t see the point of word bits on a tinny screen usually…
TV gives us sound bites… now twitter twits….