Facebook to Twitter?

                Nowadays no matter a person’s age or status, a lot tend to have a social media profile of some sort. People of older ages tend to have a Facebook. Younger people have something called a Twitter. People ask, “What’s the difference?” Well, on Facebook a person makes a status. Once that status is made, and of their friends can comment on, like or share it. No one has to see it if they don’t extend the original status. However, on Twitter, in order to “like” or comment on something, you have to “retweet” it or “reply” to the original status maker. Sound similar? Well it isn’t. On Twitter if you reply to someone or retweet it, it is able to be seen by anyone who follows you.

                This also means that everyone who follows you can see what the other person has posted. This may interfere with what the other person may have wanted with their privacy. While some people do not set the option to have requests sent to be followed, others might. They may not allow some people to follow them for specific reasons. Just like you would not accept a friend request on Facebook.

                Another feature similar to Facebook is Twitter’s ability to post pictures. You can add them to an update like any other status. But the same thing follows with pictures as it does regular statuses. You cannot comment on them. If you post something on Twitter and want to “tag” someone in it, then instead of writing the person’s name, you have to hit the at symbol (@) and then proceed to type their username instead of the name that they put in their header. If anyone does mention you in a status, you can go to your activity. This is very similar to Facebook’s notifications. The only feature in the notification portion is that you cannot get or send any of those annoying requests.

                Remember messaging? Twitter has that as well. They call it direct messaging. There really isn’t any difference between that and Facebook’s messaging. They not only serve the same purpose, but they appear in just about the same way. There is, however, a smaller limit on the amount of characters you can use on Twitter than there is on Facebook. This does limit what you can say, but also makes you think harder about revising! Who knew that there was some sort of educational value in Twitter?! Well there ya go, there’s just about everything about the similarities between Twitter and Facebook!

-Hangin’ from a clothesline