Tweets VS Facebook Statuses
Strange subject, I know and, at face value it doesn't seem to relate to writing. However, in my opinion it does.
A facebook status has essentially no word limit. A tweet, a little over 100. And yet, in my experience (maybe because of the people I follow, I don't know) but tweets say a lot more than statuses.
While fb statuses tell us what people had for their dinner and what their ex partners are up to, tweets give us amusement, profound statements, news stories, celebrity itiniaries, links to blogs, photographs, little snippets of people's lives.
There are downsides.You can't choose whether to accept someone as a follower so I get to stalk Stephen Fry, Julian Clary and Pink to my hearts content. Personally, I only comment on the tweets if I have something to say, and I wouldnt dream of abusing anyone, famous or not, but it happens. People are abused and a lot of them are vulnerable young people. I think that those of us who are older and more stable have an absolute duty to support them and protect them as much as we can from those who harass, take things out of context and throw it back in their faces, bring down, or abuse.
Back to the writing thing. I think it is much more productive to advertise on Twitter because all you need is a couple of people to retweet and your possible market expands by many hundred/thousand fold as compared to twitter.
You can find blogs and works of writers you like and people you admire and, for goodness sake I get to TALK to Stephen Fry (yes I go on about him because I lurve him) even though he doesn't talk back
It can also be incredibly annoying when somone retweens dozens of tweets by peole who say stupid things like... follow me and I'll give you a shout back... not sure what that means... but you can block that, just like anything else that pisses you off.
Another thing that strikes me is whether the fact that we have to distill our words make us more careful with how we use them??
I'm interested in how the two compare and Id be interested in anyone else's opinions on this.
A facebook status has essentially no word limit. A tweet, a little over 100. And yet, in my experience (maybe because of the people I follow, I don't know) but tweets say a lot more than statuses.
While fb statuses tell us what people had for their dinner and what their ex partners are up to, tweets give us amusement, profound statements, news stories, celebrity itiniaries, links to blogs, photographs, little snippets of people's lives.
There are downsides.You can't choose whether to accept someone as a follower so I get to stalk Stephen Fry, Julian Clary and Pink to my hearts content. Personally, I only comment on the tweets if I have something to say, and I wouldnt dream of abusing anyone, famous or not, but it happens. People are abused and a lot of them are vulnerable young people. I think that those of us who are older and more stable have an absolute duty to support them and protect them as much as we can from those who harass, take things out of context and throw it back in their faces, bring down, or abuse.
Back to the writing thing. I think it is much more productive to advertise on Twitter because all you need is a couple of people to retweet and your possible market expands by many hundred/thousand fold as compared to twitter.
You can find blogs and works of writers you like and people you admire and, for goodness sake I get to TALK to Stephen Fry (yes I go on about him because I lurve him) even though he doesn't talk back
It can also be incredibly annoying when somone retweens dozens of tweets by peole who say stupid things like... follow me and I'll give you a shout back... not sure what that means... but you can block that, just like anything else that pisses you off.
Another thing that strikes me is whether the fact that we have to distill our words make us more careful with how we use them??
I'm interested in how the two compare and Id be interested in anyone else's opinions on this.
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He's awesome isn't he. FB voyeur hehe. Some people put so much of their lives up there.The problem I have, hence, I suppose why I'm responding to your comment... is that I can't not comment. If I have something to say I HAVE to say it, even when it's not exactly wise :)
LOL! I agree with that as well. And in some ways it's easier to type out responses considering how hard it is for me to reply to someone face to face with my foot in my mouth as it is a HUGE portion of the time. I am painfully shy in person so I come off cold or antisocial...HA...how ironic that an antisocial is replying via a social network!
That's the beauty of the internet. You get time to think before you speak and it's impersonal enough that you can afford to relax and be yoursef, even more of yourself :) I suffer from foot in mouth syndrome too :)
True. That is nice but I still find myself taking forever to type out a few lines for fear of sounding ridiculous! Once typed this shit is here forever! :D
HAHA. There's always the delete button :)
Ummm...the delete button is for pussies??? ;)
On the other hand when I Tweet (on rare occasions) I find myself giving loads of thought to what I want to say. It does force me to pick and choose what's important or relevant and it does make me more careful with how I use my 140 characters.
And oh yes...I get to hear Steven Fry as well!