Social Media Etiquette, Facebook or Twitter?

Do you actively use more than one social network?   Do you only have one purpose for being involved in social media?

If you’re like most people, you use one for business related discussions and one for more personal types of communications.

Though on the surface many social networks seem similar, to use them skillfully you should understand the different roles they can play in your online activity. Here’s what I have discovered in my use of both Facebook and Twitter.

I seem to receive most of the “late, breaking news” types of communications on Twitter.

I know that lots of people post on Facebook about current events but Twitter just seems to be about the latest breaking news.

I usually use Facebook more for communicating with established friendships and family members while Twitter is a broad range of people with whom I think I have common interests.

I have many followers on Twitter who only post those great sayings that we’d all love to have time to read for ourselves but the little 140 character snippets fit much more easily into our lifestyles than going to the bookshelf.

There’s a lot to be said about a person from scanning what they’ve tweeted over the past month than you can find out about them by what they choose to share in their Facebook profile, wouldn’t you agree?

If scanning their tweets indicates a commonality between us, I might ask them to become a friend on Facebook.  That just seems like a much more reliable way to “see” what someone’s all about.

What are your thoughts on this subject?  Please leave a comment and share your opinions.

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