Facebook v. Twitter: Round 1
For those of us who range from slightly introverted to full blown social media butterflies, Facebook might be the site for you. Facebook's conceptual set up are just like you could imagine: a place where people can put up pictures of themselves and create a visual identity that everyone can see. In other words, Facebook is a place that other people can use to identify and learn about another individual, then connect to that person should they know (or want to know) that person. The first aspect that feeds into Facebook's social prowess is it's Timeline Interface. It is designed to show one's activities on Facebook since one has joined. Also, it is broken down by year, making it much more organized for yourself and others to go through your Facebook past. You can post statuses about what ever comes to mind, pictures of your special events and latest night out and even play games with your best friend from back home.
Twitter on the other hand seems to be more for the more extraverted types. For one, you must find friends that care about you enough to hear you complain about your life (joke). However, it is true that you must find friends and ask them to follow you. Also, Twitter allows people to connect with celebrities on a much deeper level, due to the fact that twitter is 'cool'. A lot of celebrities followed ashton kutchers lead with Twitter, and I'm just learning about it, so I struggle to elaborate further on this :)
You don't need to "have" people follow you just yet. Use twitter to research the community you need to know about. Twitter can identify "Alpha" leaders of any group/issue or cause. It's quite democratizing in that aspect.
ReplyDeleteAnother way to "get people to follow you" is to think about three aspects of Twitter engagement: Creating posts, replying to posts, and sharing posts. Give the second two a shot - see what happens.