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So….
Twitter. Facebook. Blogging.
Which one is your go-to social media platform? Which one lights you up, obsesses you… which one MUST YOU CHECK every moment you can?
For me, the number 1 choice is twitter. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty darn addicted to my blogging (and I love it to pieces) but twitter is my go-to place. It’s where I go to hang out, chat with friends, de-stress, share what’s happening, and be entertained!
Facebook is a distant third for me. I really enjoy my Business Pages (I have quite a few, for this blog, *bespoke*, Epheriell and Vintette) but I very rarely check my personal facebook wall – I might check my friend’s updates once a day or so, and I almost never update my own status! And, considering the change facebook recently made to the default setting on people’s profile, chances are that facebook will become less effective in future.
I think twitter has very much taken over facebook for me – as some clever soul says (this gets retweeted around regularly) ‘facebook is the place to connect to those you went to high-school with, twitter is where you hang out with the people you wished you went to high-school with‘ – or something to that effect.
Twitter is where I have found my Tribe, my People – those who share similar interests, similar attitudes, similar outlooks! I have made some very dear friends on twitter who are now friends in the off-line world, too. And, for someone like me who works from home and lives in the country, well, I don’t have many opportunities to meet new people!
I think what I love most about twitter is the instant nature of it. You can have an almost real-time conversation – something that is quite hard to achieve on the other two platforms.
Twitter has also been absolutely crucial to the success of my business endeavours. *bespoke* simply would not have happened without twitter, and the fabulous network of people I am a part of over there.
So, for me, twitter is definitely numero uno. You?
I feel so overwhelmed looking at all of those logos up there! I tend to flick between fb and twitter. I find on twitter it is easier to find a greater concentration of like minded people to have a quick chat with and it’s a great avenue to finding new artists. FB is still where a lot of my friends are from pre online days and I want to stay in contact there. The blog is a different group as well. I think they all complement each other in a way but at this moment I have the luxury of time in between jobs. I’m not sure what will be the first to go should I not have as much time online.
I only signed up for twitter a few months ago because I read a blog about how much it had improved their blog, at the time I didn’t understand why twitter was any good, and I was very resistant to getting it! As you probably know, I slightly hooked now! And the only thing I regret is that I didn’t get it sooner! I don’t know if it’s done anything for my blog, but it’s been a wonderful place to meet lovely people! I’m the same as you with FB, I scan it once a day or so to see if anyone has birthed or gotten married, but I never update my own status!
I have been on facebook and twitter for a while and I am still learning how to use them. I think it takes time for people to find you and then it starts to grow. The more people find you the more people find you. Like a snowball rolling down hill.
I’m the same. I have Twitter open all day at work, while I only check Facebook every now and again at home, and I try to read my fav blogs via RSS on the iPad in bed most nights.
I love that Twitter is a real-time conversation with like-minded tweeps all around the world. I loved the quote about Twitter being the place you hang out with people you wished you went to high-school with. 🙂
Alice – fabulous analogy, and absolutely! It takes time, but the longer you’re on twitter, the more interesting and engaging it becomes, as you build up a network.
I use Facebook the most for networking and socialising. I run my art business off a facebook page and have built up a dialogue with like minded people through both my personal profile and business page. I do have many highschool friends on my personal page but I have also met many people that have become good friends in the offline world through facebook, more so than twitter. Recently I have gotten back into twitter and been using twitter a bit more, checking it regularly throughout the day. I find that this coincided with me getting back into blogging and re-linking my facebook page statuses to update on twitter. And there is Pinerest that I have been totally addicted to lately and have found many fabulous tweeters and blogs to follow. For me it’s Facebook, twitter, followed closely by blogging.