I've been using Facebook for almost a year now and I'm sort of obsessed. I see it as a way to catch up with old friends. I've caught up with a lot of friends and non friends from primary school from Tewantin State School from the seventies. Its been great and we even had a reunion of people who had lived in Noosa for a long time last year that was organised by Facebook (FB). I've also found (or they have found me) old friends that I have lost touch with and probably would never have seen again. I look at it this way, I've got 96 friends on FB who I would never have time to catch up with. At least you get to see what they are up to and look at photos of their life, and send them the odd message or comment. I have an American friend who was very hard to keep in touch with when we only had email. Now that we are both on FB it is much easier. It doesn't stop me socialising in person with my friends but it helps catch up with others.
On FB you can add status updates as often as you like to let people know what you are thinking or goind. Twitter appears to be like one neverending status update or 'tweet' as they call them.
You have probably noticed from my blog that I'm a 'visual' person which is why I like Facebook and the blog as you can illustrate what you say with a photo. It was very interesting to read on the SLQ blog: 5 impressive mashups of Twitter & Flickr:
http://mashable.com/2009/05/11/twitter-flickr-mashups/
It looks like a lot of work has gone into meshing Twitter & Flickr so it is more like a blog or FB. Flickr is owned by Yahoo, not sure who FB is owned by but I'd say they are competing against each other.
A lot of people are starting to talk about Twitter, although FB is becoming more popular every day. I didn't like My Space, I'm not sure if it is losing popularity, but I don't know anyone who has an account.
I will write more when I find someone to tweet!
Dancing Queen
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