I’ve been noticing differences between Facebook and Twitter. Have you been seeing them too?
Facebook seems to be easier to hold conversations on. Discussions on Facebook get captured in threads, allowing them to occur over time rather than relying on a bunch of people all being online at the same time and willing to talk about the same topic.
Discussions on Twitter seem to get lost in “the firehose” – the flood of random tweets coming from all those people you’re following. People have devised all sorts of workarounds (like hashtags and lists) to pull relevant tweets out of the flood, but they all feel like workarounds rather than useful tools.
Most of the people I follow on Twitter have blogs, so many of the tweets I see include URLs of blog posts and web pages. This is the way I sample blogs and get my light topical reading for the day. (I stopped following any blogs a year ago. I got bored.)
I see blog posts and web pages on Facebook as well, but not as many and generally not as interesting to me. (That may be a function of who my Facebook Friends are.)
What about you? What attracts you to one verses the other?
