I've had my Facebook for awhile but it lay dormant and inaccessible to people search as I pondered if it can help me with my online business. There's so much going on in my offline and online life that adding another social network is more work than play to me. Like most social users, I have Friendster, Yahoo 360, Myspace (dead) and Multiply (which was dormant until it enabled cross-posting of Blogger blog posts). I also have multiple personal blogs plus websites of employers that I update daily. Do I really have time for Facebook?? ;-) It also didn't help that Facebook announced recently that everything you put in your FB profile will be THEIR property. Thank god they backtracked after much hullabaloo from FB fanatics.
Around one month ago, I finally joined
Twitter (follow my tweets
here)
for monetary reasons. Twitter is a microblogging service that allows you to broadcast what you want -- but make sure it will fit in 140 characters or less (tweets). Tough for verbose people! Hehe! For most part I'm an early adopter of emerging web technologies but since the dot com bubble bust, I have been wary of joining popular websites especially if the hype is overwhelming. Twitter was in that category but lo and behold! More than 2 years after bursting into the online scene it's still around and gaining more members everyday. In fact, traditional media practitioners, celebrities and politicians are into it already. AND Facebook tried to buy it! Unfortunately for them, Twitter said no. Anyway, I found the tweets incredibly informative (I'm following medical doctors & tech gurus) and I'm definitely enjoying the "Twitter experience" =)
So what has Twitter gotta do with me finally activating my Facebook? (Yeah, I know it took me awhile to come to the point, LOL!) Well, I found out that I can update my FB status with my Twitter feed! I actually don't have to login to Facebook to tell my friends what I'm up to! This means I won't be wasting my time logging in to FB and getting distracted with the quizzes and other addicting apps there ;-) I can update my Twitter (via PC or mobile phone) and it will publish to my Facebook profile. Now isn't that neat? And did you know that Facebook's new homepage that shows REAL-TIME updates is based on Twitter? When Twitter turned down FB's offer to buy it, FB management thought "If we can't buy them, we'll compete with them!" And with 175 million users, Facebook might just bring Twitter down -- OR NOT!
