My sister-in-law is visiting from Vancouver and asked me to explain the difference between Twitter and Facebook.
As I tried to explain what I saw as the difference, I found I was delving way too deep into webcentric language and was absolutely failing in helping her (a very mainstream user of Facebook). Then I turned to Twitter.
I posted the following update: “I’m trying to explain the difference between Twitter and Facebook to my sister-in-law. What’s the easiest, simplest way to do that?” around an hour ago and have since gotten a bunch of good responses.
Below are are a bunch of good ones. I’ll update as I get more.
@techdiva66 twitter is short, character-limited updates & facebook gives you more options for communicating as well as games & apps
@billiegirltoo twitter is up to the second raw thought. facebook allows editing. twitter has a personal feeling
@jpurnell twitter is lower-stakes status updates
@brew7vwp on twitter you talk to strangers you like, on facebook you talk to friends you barely remember
@victordlt Twitter is Facebook in KISS mode (Keep it Simple Stupid). More Simple and Faster.
@calindrome Twitter is a cocktail party; Facebook is recess.
@Goose Facebook is Twitter for people with Internet agoraphobia.
@JD_Southard Facebook is so 2008. Twitter is a social networking experiment in real time connecting people thru a limited # of characters
@ahachmi twitter is where you can vent your mood, sure fbook does the same, but in Twitter it is nothing but the venting of thoughts.
@MyNameisRazzle Facebook Status without the Facebook.
@victordlt Twitter is Facebook with about 10,000 less settings.
@tilga “its like facebook but w/o all the apps. just the status updates” is what i say… GL.
@craiggav Twitter is Facebook without any of the annoying quizzes.
@Adamw13 twitter is only status messages none of the superflous stuff
@ThatsTwit twitter is up to the second raw thought. facebook allows editing. twitter has a personal feeling http://twurl.nl/egr0mw
@bderico Facebook is more about you than it is about what you are doing. Twitter’s updates are more frequent and carry a bit more.
@thawrite1 its facebook with just the status msgs
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