Facebook vs Twitter
Facebook vs. Twitter
Jaimie Mckeen
English Comp
Linda Gardner
06 November 2012
Jaimie Mckeen
English Comp
Linda Gardner
06 November 2012
Facebook vs. Twitter In today’s society social networking sites are very popular. It seems that most people have at least one account with a social networking website. Two of the most popular social networking sites are Facebook and Twitter. Social networking sites like these allow people to keep in touch with their friends and family no matter how far away they are. The sites allow people to find out information about things that may be going on in a person’s life without actually having to call the person. Although both of these sites are similar, they have many differences too.
With Facebook and Twitter a person can post statuses about anything they would like to share with their friends or family. Privacy settings on a person’s profile allow them to limit who can and cannot view their profile information. While Facebook status posts are unlimited on the amount of characters that you may type, Twitter posts are limited to one hundred forty characters. Facebook has a newsfeed that shows a person posts that have been made by people that they are friends with. Twitter has a newsfeed that shows posts only for those people that a person is following. The difference in the information that people are getting is that with Facebook people have to accept somebody as a friend for them to show up on their newsfeed. This would allow them to view a person’s newsfeed and profile information and vice versa. With Twitter people may follow somebody and see their status posts, but they do not have to follow that person and see his or her posts. Although posts are different with Twitter and Facebook, Twitter allows people to update their Facebook status at the same time they tweet their status on Twitter. By doing this people are updating both sites at the same time. All of this can be done very quickly
Jaimie Mckeen
English Comp
Linda Gardner
06 November 2012
Jaimie Mckeen
English Comp
Linda Gardner
06 November 2012
Facebook vs. Twitter In today’s society social networking sites are very popular. It seems that most people have at least one account with a social networking website. Two of the most popular social networking sites are Facebook and Twitter. Social networking sites like these allow people to keep in touch with their friends and family no matter how far away they are. The sites allow people to find out information about things that may be going on in a person’s life without actually having to call the person. Although both of these sites are similar, they have many differences too.
With Facebook and Twitter a person can post statuses about anything they would like to share with their friends or family. Privacy settings on a person’s profile allow them to limit who can and cannot view their profile information. While Facebook status posts are unlimited on the amount of characters that you may type, Twitter posts are limited to one hundred forty characters. Facebook has a newsfeed that shows a person posts that have been made by people that they are friends with. Twitter has a newsfeed that shows posts only for those people that a person is following. The difference in the information that people are getting is that with Facebook people have to accept somebody as a friend for them to show up on their newsfeed. This would allow them to view a person’s newsfeed and profile information and vice versa. With Twitter people may follow somebody and see their status posts, but they do not have to follow that person and see his or her posts. Although posts are different with Twitter and Facebook, Twitter allows people to update their Facebook status at the same time they tweet their status on Twitter. By doing this people are updating both sites at the same time. All of this can be done very quickly