You may be asking yourself, What the hell is he talking about? Well, the way I see it the popularity of these social media venues have grown substantially and the users of each have changed..
I remember when I was given a link to join this new “social networking” site (Facebook at that time) by my cousin. I didn’t think anything of it at the time because I felt my MySpace was all I needed and I didn’t feel like having to learn a new site.
Boy was I wrong! Things started changing on MySpace. Spammers, children, con artists, etc. started flooding into MySpace and it began to be cluttered with the sense of fake. What I mean by that is there was no feeling of an actually connection on the other side. People started adding everyone no matter who it was. It started to become a popularity contest.
Then there was drama! I would see arguments on peoples comments, relationships ending over couples cheating on each other through MySpace, it sickened me. I needed a change.
I joined Facebook. Why? Cleaner, much more organized and the connections made on Facebook were genuine. Also, the maturity of the users was much higher than those of MySpace. I enjoyed it. I’ve connected with people I haven’t seen in ages, caught up with family, and made new friends. Facebook was great.
But as with MySpace, Facebook changed as well. Their design changed and it scared me. New people were hoping on the network. To me, Facebook was turning into MySpace slowly. I began seeing the same stuff I saw on MySpace happening on Facebook. Where do I go now?
Twitter. What else can I say? It’s become the new Facebook. The relationships formed with your followers seem more genuine than most. The sense of realism is seen through everyone tweets and the wealth of knowledge found on Twitter is amazing. Conversations can be held between users and not get lost in the sauce. Twitter is straight to the point, and that point is communication.
Will Facebook users migrate over? According to a study not to long ago, the younger demographic that use Facebook and MySpace say they won’t use Twitter because its too plain, not that many people have it and you can’t customize it. Please younger demo, stay there. Let us more mature users have Twitter.
Please don’t change to much Twitter. I have no where else to go yet…
If you disagree please don’t hesitate to comment although I can assure you, I will definitely have a rebuttal. But seriously, what are your takes on this? Do you agree? How ever you may be feeling, I would like to know, so please comment. Sent from my BlackBerry®
