Social Networking over the Past Couple of Years

Social networking over the past couple of years has basically gone viral. There are many social networking sites available to the public including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn. Facebook is the second largest social networking site on the web and Twitter is gaining on it and threatens to become the number one social networking site. Facebook and Twitter are two social networking sites that seem to have a lot of similarities. The major problem that these two social networks have is that Twitter has a controlled level of social networking. With Facebook, you are not allowed a one way interaction meaning that if I feel the need to want to follow someones posts then they have to accept my friend request before I can see what they are posting.

Some major differences between Facebook and Twitter are that Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates in February 2006. Twitter was founded on March 21st, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and was launched on July 5th, 2006, with the help of his friends. Facebook is used by members for a variety of purposes. The main reason Facebook is used is so that individuals who wish to stay connected with friends can and individuals who wish to reconnect with people that they knew can also do so. As well as having a personal profile, Facebook allows you to post messages on other people's walls, upload pictures and videos, share links, write long notes, send private messages to friends, etc. Twitter only allows users to post 140 character messages, or tweets. Twitter allows you to follow the messages of other users on their twitter feed. Twitter is mainly used to communicate with other individuals with similar interests, regardless if you know each other. Users are able to ...

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...cept on Twitter, all you have to do to mention another user is put the “@” sign before the users username. Facebook users are able to comment on other users status' or pictures and on Twitter you're able to reply to tweets posted by other users.

With all of this said I think Twitter is more superior than Facebook because I feel as if more people are involved with Twitter than they are with Facebook. Sometimes I think that Facebook is becoming more of an adult social media site because I hardly see any teenagers on there anymore unless they are adding pictures. I think Twitter fits us teenagers and college students more because you get to voice your opinion and say what you want and nobody really cares. I hardly ever see any adults on Twitter.

I learned a lot from writing this paper. I never would've guessed that Twitter and Facebook had so much in common.