Take that, Facebook
Facebook and MySpace are ghosts from my past—things I’ve abandoned in the quest to leave drama behind. I hear about them all the time, but I’ve never looked back.
Twitter is starting to occupy my time the way Facebook did, taking up my spare time (and some of my valuable time, too). What makes Facebook so lame in comparison is the level of interaction it offers. If you want to talk to someone instantly using Facebook, you have to use the website to IM them. Twitter lets you do it from anywhere.
Here’s a brilliant example of how Twitter trumps Facebook from an article I posted earlier, talking about how Shaquille O’Neal makes great use of his Twitter account:
… Shaq Tweets are frequent and, more importantly, he is constantly encouraging average Twitter users to engage with him. Sometimes he asks people to guess where he is. Other times, he encourages fellow Twitter members to find him and say hello. This is a new level of celeb engagement—something far beyond what any celebrity or brand could accomplish with one of Facebook’s advertising-centric pages. …
The key word here is engagement. When you tweet something, if you’re not private, everyone can see it, even if they don’t have a Twitter account. So you’re reaching a ton of people.
Because of Twitter, people are connected to each other in a ridiculously instant way, and Facebook is kicking itself, because that thing called a status update looks stupid in comparison.
