Facebook or Twitter?

Social networking sites are popularly in demand nowadays regardless of the age and lifestyle of its users. Be it ordinary or famous people, everyone’s got an account of their preferred sites for personal or business’ use. Base on my experience and research, in citing two of the most used social sites, I came up with Twitter and Facebook. This essay will enumerate the similarities and differences of those two networking social giants.

Facebook and Twitter are way similar to each other for it is both used for reconnecting with friends or family whom you have not seen for a long time, you can easily search for them if they’ve got an account of the same or one of the sites. Aside from your old friends you can also meet new acquaintances through the network and establish friendship with them. These sites help you keep in touch with friends and family way far from you. Your friends or family can update you with what’s happening to them and vice –versa. You can even use these sites for business purposes, such as promoting products or services.

Yet, these two have their differences too. Facebook is a mashup of features like email, instant messaging, image and video sharing. Most people can very quickly grasp how to use Facebook, using it to share thoughts, images, and the likes. Plus the user can play games and interact their characters with others, for example: Pet Society, Ninja Saga and many more. While with Twitter, you will get more immediate responses to your posts but has limited functionalities, you’ll find people, send only brief messages because it has limited to 140 characters per update and direct replies. Not all people find it immediately useful. It is more like stepping on to a stage, where you are communicating with an audience and quickly find that you need to find a voice and say something useful and interesting or quickly lose the attention of your audience. People refer to Twitter as a mini or micro blogging platform.

Which one would you prefer now? Well, in the end, both Twitter and Facebook are simply communication tools; both will continue to evolve and morph as users find new ways to extract value and either network may or may become a long term winner in the rapidly evolving social networking space.