I have been tempted to deactivate my Facebook account for some time. In this short YouTube video, Julian Smith comically explains his frustrations. I concur with all twenty-five of his reasons.
I was ready to deactivate my Facebook account last week. Then I heard Chris Brogan at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference. He put forth a model that I really liked.
To paraphrase, he said that your blog is your “homebase.” This is where you ultimately direct people. On the other hand, services like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. are “outposts.” The purpose of an outpost is to connect with people that otherwise wouldn’t find your homebase.
This makes sense to me. At least several times a week, I get Facebook messages from people who say, “I stumbled across your blog on Facebook.” So, for now, I guess I will keep my account open. Personally, I find Twitter so much easier to use and more rewarding—and certainly less annoying.
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Twitter hands down!
While pros and cons, I use each medium for different purposes. I use Facebook for family, friends, and fan pages to simply follow. I use Twitter for professional resources, mentoring, and other JIT items such as breaking news. I normally don't follow someone someone who is both on Twitter and Facebook because if they want interaction, there is usually a link from Twitter to their FB or blog. LinkedIn is something I haven't fully honed yet but that, right now, is solely networking with other professionals and Twitter is connected to that.
what is so funny is that he points out lame FB functionality that could have been addressed and fixed in the most basic of usability research. Clearly, FB has spent more on pizza for the office.
I have a Twitter account, a Facebook page and a Blog. And I love all three for totally different reasons.
Twitter is where I keep up with others in my business industry. It's also where I feel ok about posting more trivial things that happen in my life.
Facebook is where I keep up with most of my IRL friends & family. It's an easy way for people who know me to find me and my contact information. I don't update it nearly as often but like to use it for occassional pics of the kids, and keeping up with people who I would otherwise NEVER cross paths with in my daily life.
And my blog. My true home on the web. The place I feel like I can truly write as much as I want (I don't like the 140 char. limit on Twitter).
What I also know is that people on FB (that I know) aren't that savvy. So they may ONLY go to FB. So that's where I put occassional links to my blog. Otherwise they'd never find my blog. ;)
They are all interconnected for me but I use them all very differently. My biggest pet peeve is the people who use Twitter to update their FB. Facebook isn't intended to be used the same way as Twitter. IMHO. ;) Thanks for asking.
I actually receive more traffic through facebook than twitter, even though I probably invest more time at twitter.
My recent post When It’s Good to be Wrong About Theology…
I hope I'm not the first to say this, but my favorite thing on Facebook is the "ignore all" button. I also find twitter far more fun and rewarding (I'm in the process of trying to convert my friends). But in the meantime I can't delete my Facebook til i can prove it's guilty of completely wasting my time and not yielding any blog hits.