facebook vs twitter
April 2nd, 2014.
Facebook takes control. Facebook is better in communication to keep in touch relations even if they are in the same city o far away. Also, Facebook is one of the means of communication used worldwide and it has over 600 million users. Additionally, this is the world’s most popular social networking website. It makes easier to connect and share photos, videos and much more with your family and friends online. Facebook has even helped web become more open and social. Besides this, there is another social media called “Twitter”, which now is one of the biggest ways to keep in contact with friends, follow closely news and entertainment and also, find out other news around the world such as: music, politics, trends, sports, etc. Twitter became very popular and it could overcome the number of Facebook users in the following years. But, even though Twitter shows more ways to keep in touch; Facebook has three main reasons to be better in communication and those are: privacy, space and promotion. First of all, Facebook allow the person to select many kinds of privacy such as: public, friends only and private. Members can choose whether or not to be searchable, decide which parts their profile are public, decide what not to put on their newsfeed and determinate exactly who can see their posts. For those members who wish to use Facebook to communicate privately, there is a message feature, which closely resembles email. On Twitter, the user just has two options in privacy: private or public, the user does not have many options such as Facebook, even if they have the option to block the person that they don’t want. For example: People will have to request to follow; each follow request has to be approved, other users will not be able to retweet the users’ tweet, those tweets will be visible only to users they have approved. Secondly, Facebook gives to the user total freedom to write more than 800 characters to describe videos, photos, games or
Facebook takes control. Facebook is better in communication to keep in touch relations even if they are in the same city o far away. Also, Facebook is one of the means of communication used worldwide and it has over 600 million users. Additionally, this is the world’s most popular social networking website. It makes easier to connect and share photos, videos and much more with your family and friends online. Facebook has even helped web become more open and social. Besides this, there is another social media called “Twitter”, which now is one of the biggest ways to keep in contact with friends, follow closely news and entertainment and also, find out other news around the world such as: music, politics, trends, sports, etc. Twitter became very popular and it could overcome the number of Facebook users in the following years. But, even though Twitter shows more ways to keep in touch; Facebook has three main reasons to be better in communication and those are: privacy, space and promotion. First of all, Facebook allow the person to select many kinds of privacy such as: public, friends only and private. Members can choose whether or not to be searchable, decide which parts their profile are public, decide what not to put on their newsfeed and determinate exactly who can see their posts. For those members who wish to use Facebook to communicate privately, there is a message feature, which closely resembles email. On Twitter, the user just has two options in privacy: private or public, the user does not have many options such as Facebook, even if they have the option to block the person that they don’t want. For example: People will have to request to follow; each follow request has to be approved, other users will not be able to retweet the users’ tweet, those tweets will be visible only to users they have approved. Secondly, Facebook gives to the user total freedom to write more than 800 characters to describe videos, photos, games or