A few days ago, I removed quite a lot of “friends” from my Facebook account because I realized that we were not really friends in real life. Yes, I may know you from a friend of a friend, but if I have never talked to you in person, I don’t think we are “friends”. Seriously, what kind of friends are we if we don’t talk? LOL.
I like Facebook. I really do. I think Facebook provides a great way to keeping in touch with friends whom I have not met in a long time. I think it also provides an easy way for me to just say “Hi, how have you been?” or “Happy Birthday” without worrying that my message is too short. Plus, it also provides a decent way to keep myself updated on the whereabouts of my friends — from kindergarten to university ones, blogger friends and friends I have made over the years :)
So yeah, if I have removed you from my Facebook, please don’t take it too personally. It doesn’t mean that I don’t like you. It just means that we need to get to know each other before we can call ourselves “friends” :)
Now, the other thing is with Twitter. I have also just un-followed about 60% of the people in my list because I found it “too much” to go through the whole list of tweets everyday. Like I was telling a friend the other day, I’d hate to miss the tweets that I don’t want to miss, but I can’t bear to go through all the tweets every morning, especially when 95% of the tweets aren’t relevant to me. Plus, it doesn’t help when I live on the other side of the globe from a lot of my Twitter friends.
I don’t have a product to market. I don’t regard myself as a “news-provider” either because I don’t sit in front of the computer the whole day, and I am not living in a place where exciting things happen, LOL. In other words, I don’t have first-hand news to share with my followers. So, I use Twitter to “communicate” with friends instead. When a friend tweets, I will think of a way to respond to the tweet because I feel that it is a great way to keep in touch with a friend, especially when I’m too busy to write an email.
So yeah, how do you use Facebook and Twitter? And if you’re following more than 100 people on Twitter, how do you actually keep tab of what’s happening to who?
I use FB to get extra audience for my blog post.
i have 733 (and counting) “friends” on my FB. d*mn kiasu or what? :p
WOW. Do you know ALL your “friends” on Facebook? How do you keep with them? How many of them do you contact (email, wall post, poke, etc.) frequently, and how often?
amazingly YES, i DO know all of them! and i do keep in touch with them once in a while. most of them are ppl from high sch or uni – lol! but i think it’s high time i go through the list again and spring clean. :x
I don’t use twitter. I’ve tried it twice and deleted it — twice.
On Facebook, I only “friend” family, people I know and like (friends), or people that I “know” online and like a lot (friends). I’m pretty careful about who I “friend.”
I don’t use twitter. Don’t know why, somehow twitter is not my thing.
As for facebook, I accept any friends requests, even if that person is someone i dont know. I put them in a category call “Limited”, and I only let them see certain information that I feel can be shared with strangers (name, birthdates, about me, and thats about it?)
That’s a smart way to put it, rather than having to ignore requests, kan? :)
I follow 137 people on Twitter and have just over 200 friends on Facebook. Most of the people I follow on Twitter is linked to my beauty blog, and the ones on FB are mostly actual friends. It can become a chore sometimes when it comes to Twitter to the point where I check it the first thing I wake up, and the last thing before I fall asleep.
I do have Twitter account but I never tweet and just a follower. I think publicity makes Twitter hot but in the end people will use Twitter as a marketing tools.
Facebook? It was all for game at first but now I just read other people status and update my thought as well. See other people photo to learn what is the trending activity and places of interest :D
Honestly, I don’t really use FaceBook all that much, because of privacy concerns. I get a hard time from my friends about this sometimes, because they all really get into it.
In regards to twitter, it can be a neat way to follow current events as they are happening. Sometimes you come across some very interesting points of view that you would be exposed to from normal news outlets. I have played around with it a little bit myself for my sites as well.
I know what you mean about being overwhelmed by all the other peoples posts as well, as your front page ends up filled with just one or two people.
I use Facebook to keep up with grown up children and a couple of grandkids :) Yep, I AM that old! LOL I also have a lot of friends there that are also friends on a site called mylot. I don’t Twitter.
I use TweetDeck (http://tweetdeck.com/) which helps keep up with large follow numbers on Twitter. You can create groups of users who you don’t want to overlook, filter and search for particular words and phrases, and customise all sorts of elements to make Twitter much easier to get through.
It helps to see Twitter as a huge water cooler conversation, where a LOT is taking place, but doesn’t matter if you dip in and out. That’s where TweetDeck helps, so you can focus on particular users so that they stand out and you don’t miss their output. Anything else can be treated as a ‘lucky dip’ if you like!
For me, Twitter is more a networking/conversational/informational tool, while Facebook is a hub to catch up on what friends are up to. There is crossover on the way I use both services, but hopefully you get the general idea.
I don’t use facebook. I have been trying out Twitter http://twitter.com/curiouscat_com I am still not totally sold on it. I do like how it is easy to connect to people and follow them. But the limit of 140 characters is just to short for many messages so it seems to me it is pretty limited.